Month: January 2016

I picked up Freckles’ ashes on Saturday. Today I conducted a tearful “funeral” for my girl. First, I spread a few ashes around in the place she loved to “sunbath” in the back yard at home. Then I took the remainder to her favorite park. I spread her in her favorite places in the park…where she would fetch the stick on a hill…near the trees where she would look for squirrels to chase…and in a wooded place near a stream. She loved these places in life and I am sure that she will appreciate that Daddy put her in her favorite places. It was a funeral full of tears. But, as I remember how she was suffering in the last…I am sure she now fully at rest. I will always love you Freckles…. Goodbye

I had Freckles put down today. She had developed another MAST Tumor. This one was larger than a fist and located on her belly. She had really been fighting, but her breathing was irregular and she would only eat minimal food. The quality of life had really crashed. I should have her ashes in about a week. I plan to scatter them in a grove of trees in her favorite park. Thank you all for the support and information. Her long, strange trip is over. I loved her so.