When She Went Away
When She Went Away
Imagine that you wake up one morning, and the person you love most in the world hugs your neck, waves a tearful good-bye, gets into a car and disappears down the road. You worry because something in her voice was different this time, not like when she would drive to the grocery store only to return a couple of hours later with a bag of food for you.
This time, a lot of hours pass, and she doesn’t come back. Someone you don’t know very well comes to the house to feed you dinner. They say words you don’t understand the meaning of – nursing home, no other choice.
A day passes, and that same person comes back. Only this time, he puts you in the back of his car and drives you to a place you’ve never been to before.
He gets you out of the car. A nice lady walks up and tells him that older dogs don’t have a very good chance of getting adopted here. You wonder what adopted is. You hear the man tell the nice lady that his sister went to a nursing home and you belonged to her. He can’t take care of you. The nice lady looks sad.
The man gets in the car without you and drives off.
Another person you don’t know comes out and leads you to what looks like a cage with a concrete floor. She puts you inside and closes the door.
There are a lot of dogs here, most of them younger than you. You’re 10 – 70 in people years. Some of the dogs are barking. You hear the anxiousness in their barks, and you start to shake. You wonder why the person you love went away, and what you did wrong to be left here.
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All We Need to Know 
That probably is what they feel at that moment not knowing where their former family member has gone and seeing all these strange people come to you. It may take some time for the dog to get over it and probably longer for others but the positive thing is they live in the moment and move on eventually…hopefully to a home.
This is a beautiful and sad story, of which I imagine happens all too often. Older dogs are wonderful, they have been around the block, and although they have their quirks, and get cranky, they all deserve a quiet, comfy, and loving home to spend their last days. I do believe that dogs live in the moment, as we all should do more, but they have excellent memories, though they cannot express their remembrance of the people they love (or completely dislike) through words, they never forget them.
made me cry. it makes me so sad that we can do so many hurtful things to animals and they still love us unconditionally.
I pray every night for all of God’s beautiful creations, that they will find loving homes, have shelter, food, water and someone who will break out in big smile when they see that furry little face, but I also pray for any and all animals in the wild too, that they are always under the watchful eye of our Heavenly Father and that they are safe
To me it’s twice as tragic for a dog to reach its golden years and then have to be put through this trauma. I wish I could adopt all the older dogs, so they could all be peaceful at the end. God bless those people who do.