TAKE HOME REMY

We have decided to get a puppy. Falling in love with Remy was entirely to easy. That little brown eye boy waddling around made us laugh and I am sure his puppy kisses are going to capture our hearts even more once he gets to come home with us permanently. He will be all ours at the end of January.

I will be quite frank. We have a lot to learn about puppies. It has been awhile since we have had one in our home. Stoli was almost 7 years old when he passed away so we have long ago forgot about the days of training AND to top everything off, Stoli was a gem. He WAS easy to train. Never pooped or peed in the house, never chewed on our shoes, never did anything that made us too angry. In fact, Stoli was such a clean dog, he really should have been a kitty! :)

We are going to try very hard NOT to compare Remy with Stoli. It just wouldn’t be fair to little ol’ Remy who has his whole life ahead of him. :)

Stoli’s life was incredible. But the last month of his life was not! Lymphoma is a cruel and nasty disease and nothing or no one should suffer the way that he did. When we knew in our hearts it was time to say goodbye to our dearest Stoli, it was human nature to try and change it, grieve it, and even deny it. I selfishly wanted Stoli with me forever and even today I miss him terribly. No one wants to say goodbye. No one wants to let go of a best friend, a confidant, a selfless companion. BUT letting go and grieving is and was part of the emotional process. It is part of the cycle and we all go through it, in one form or another. Releasing what is best for us, and embracing what is best for them, is always a choice. Knowing the answer to what that choice is, is found in the heart. When the time came for us to say goodbye to Stoli, we could have prolonged it, but that would have been just for us and not the right choice.

Each animal in our life brings lessons, challenges, and the purity of their love and spirit. What a gift we give to each other and to ourselves when we bring an animal into our life and sometimes even have to make the difficult choice to end it! :(

Now, we get to welcome a new champ into our life, Remy, and we hope to give him as much love as we did Stoli, just in a different way!

We will keep you posted on when we get to pick him up and actually bring him home! :)