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I am the keeper

where did the time go?

seems like just yesterday, but it was really so long ago.
I remember today.you were so sick, in so much pain. it had to be the end.
you know I loved you, and love you still. you where my heart, my soul.
you entered my life when I needed you most. and left when you had taught me how to make it on my own

gone..but never forgotten
keep all the pieces of my heart together till I get there

one day, a long,long,time ago,as I lay in my concrete room with the cage door,I over heard the guards saying "this ones time is up tomorrow". I sighed and lay my head down.I knew what that ment.I had been here before.I had seen dogs go into the little room in the back,and never come back out.why was I here again? was chewing up a shoe and getting in the garbage crimes punishable by death?then there was a young teenage girl looking in at me.she had street wise eyes and our souls touched.
I heard her speaking to the guards,they told her she was not old enough to "buy" me. and then she left. as I lay there trying to accept my fate a while later I heard her voice again.SHE HAD COME BACK! and she had brought a couple with her. they were old enough to bail me out.
we all piled into an old vw bug. on our way to my new home, she kept hugging me, and I slurped her face. it was the start of my new life.

Life was not easy for the girl and me. we had some really ruff times.but we had each other, so we would make it thru.when I forgot myself and chewed up her shoe, she just laughted,and said she would have broken her neck with heels like that. when I got in the garbage, she bought a hook for the door. when I figured out how to open the hook, she told me I was too smart for my own good.
twice when things got really bad, she had to put me in foster care while she got things sorted out.the second time when she came for me she had my new daddy. things never got as bad again.he was a wonderfull man. but took some training. he learned quick.

life was good for along time.

then came the lump. it grew,dr said it should be removed, so I had surgery.
they said the test came back benign,but it was wrong.
I never healed. I got worse.I was so sick, and in so much pain, mom decided it was time to stop.so she gave me a last tear filled kiss and hug, she took all my pain away.

now I am the Keeper. when mom and dad send peices of their heart to the rainbow bridge, I go get them. I keep us all together.
waiting for the day we all play together again.

this year I was honored to be asked to be a judge in the adopt 2011 contest.

wow! I dont think I have ever barked with a group of kind, careing, dedicated pups as my fellow judges. I can call them pups, cuz I bet I have been on the bridge longer then some of the humans have been on earth, BOL!

and the entries, my dog, it was so hard to pick my top ones. they are all heart touching stories. they all are winners in thier own way. either by finding thier forever homes, or great foster homes waiting for that special human to find them. and this old angel is sure that next years contest will have a story or two that they have.

so untill then

opt to adopt!
give a heart a second chance, you wont be sorry