A Healing Heart

[ragosa]

A big breath and here I go>>>>>

I need to tell this true tale so that all of you out there still suffering with broken hearts will know that there is healing and comfort on the horizon.

Guyle passed away to the day three months ago. I came home from the emerg vets, climbed into bed and had no desire to ever pull myself out of it again. Well, the human spirit does not allow one to do that nor does the spirit of our noble departed breed....

I went to work day after day, fighting back the tears as I passed from chore to chore and
one day a friend whom I had not seen for awhile happened upon me at break time. We sat and talked of Guyle's passing, she too is a dog lover and has two Labs. She told me that
she believed since Guyle was my forever friend, he would somehow lead me to my next dog.......

Two months later I saw the picture of an 18 month old female rottie on pet shelter. I looked long and hard at that picture and decided four days later to go take a look see. Something in the eyes.... The gentle way
she held her head. I was right!!! Home she came...

I rememberd Guyle and how it was for him to be all alone and how things may have been different in some aspects for him if he had had a playmate...... I fought with this idea
for sometime as my father was recovering from
a heart attack and I have lived here with him
since my mother's passing. Kyann was perfect for him, so gentle and loving... But she was
lonely for her own kind...

Then word came about a male Rottie, 18 months old, left in a vacant house... His name was Kail and the lady who was caring for him was
scared to death of Rotties and needed to find a home for him ASAP. I called, and sight unseen I said I would come and take a look at him. Now the tug of war and questions were at
full tilt.. I was at war with myself.
I had a few days before I went to see him and
oh my... The night I came home from taking a look at Kail I went to sleep and had this dream......
Guyle and a very very skinny Kail were running side by side, as free as could be and
so very full of life and happiness. I woke up
and thanked Guyle again for all that he had given me in his all too short life with me...
Kail is home with me now...

There is great laughter and happiness in my heart once again.

[This message has been edited by ragosa (edited March 26, 2000).]