Mutt mom Helen wrote this memoriam with a heavy heart. She lost her Muttville gal Gracie just a few days ago, and we are mourning with her. Sail way, sweet girl:
Dear Gracie passed away on Monday, due to heart and lung complications. I rushed her to the emergency vet on Sunday, where they tried everything they could to improve her failing heart. The prognosis was an enlarged left heart and pulmonary hypertension. I had been treating her for 10 months for the heart complications, but the additional complications of the hypertension created too much strain on my dear girl. With the vet’s advice, we euthanized Gracie on Monday morning. I held her in my arms. My sweet girl is buried in the backyard near a butterfly bush and 8 darling pigeons to watch over her.
I so clearly remember the day I journeyed down to Muttville on a Friday afternoon, with two bunnies in my car, to find just the right gentle dog to join my home. Gracie was clearly the one to join my home in Petaluma – even the bunnies agreed! Grace was my first dog (in my adult years) and I marveled every day how I got the best dog ever, the most darling, sweet and gentle dog! My heart melted every morning when I woke up and she was waiting for her kisses. Sometimes she’d accompany me to work, where everyone adored her. When my dad visited from Florida, he couldn’t get enough of her and he would always sing to her “The Most Beautiful Girl in the World….she’s my Gracie…” It was so touching to me how much she loved my dad.
I am so saddened that Gracie is gone – even my bunnies look at me and seem to ask, “where’d she go, momma?” I can’t thank Muttville enough for rescuing her and letting this incredibly beautiful girl share her remaining years with me. I feel so lucky and grateful.
11/4/15
