Wimpy (mama's Mookie)

[babydollz676]

hi my name is tonya and i'm new here .i a husband ,4 children and currently no rotty :(this august will be 3 years ago ,we lost our big boy.we never cried so hard in our lives.i never thought i'd see my husband reduced to a sobbing mess the way he was.it truely was like losing one of our kids .my dads best friend was a breeder and wimpy was one of the offspring he decided to keep but wimpy's dad wasn't so happy with that so he gave wimpy to my dad at 18 months.wimpy was kept outside in a pen until he was 4 (which me and my dad disagreed upon):( that's when my dad decided wimpy needed to be an inside pet with a family who had more time for him so he asked us to take him.well i was afraid of rottweilers but because my dad obviously would not endanger my 3 kids and told me wimpy would be great with them ,we agreed.it was THE best thing i ever did! when my husband picked him up he took him right to the groomer who fell in love with him and then brought him home where he got to meet us inside for the first time.i was shocked at how huge he looked in our little house lol....he was 150 pounds and pretty tall with a giant head.the first thing he did was go right up to my son who was a baby at the time and nudge him and lick him.kids could do whatever to him and he couldn't care less.he was always sticky with ice cream and whatever else the kids had on their hands lol well in 2005 we made a move out of state to sc and took him with us of course.my husband became a long haul trucker and was only home a couple days per month.i was totally out of my element and as usual wimpy was there to comfort me (he had even slept in our bed and became my body pillow lol) a few months later (right before he turned 9) he passed away on our bed.my husband happened to be home and we had gone out to walmart and he seemed fine (with the exception of excess drooling which i attributed to him wanted our pizza ) .when we got back he was in our bed whining and not getting up.we went to him and tried to figure out what was going on.i called the breeder and the vet and while i was on the phone with the vet wimpy siezed and passed away in my husbands arms.the vet said he tried to hint to me that wimpy wasn't going to be with us much longer but i seemed to be in denial as i got offended and quickly changed the subject.looking back i probably was people had made comments about how much he had slowed down and became lazy and he had arthritis in his leg so he was limping sometimes.some people even suggested i have him put down but i was blind to it all.he was so happy just laying around on us all the time and as long as that stump of his kept "wagging" we would keep him around was our mentality....well ,we still haven't gotten another rotty .we were so distraught after losing him ,we'd cry everytime we saw a rotty and we felt bitter and jealous toward rotty owners .we have come a long way and are now daring to look around and try to find a good breeder who will hopefully have a nice big ,block headed male rotty pup for us (not that we want to replace wimpy but we do like the larger rotts)sorry for making this so long.i wonder if i can attach a pic.