farewell roc, we will miss you!

as you all know we lost our 11 year old dog on monday morning. we've known for a while that he was ready to leave us but of course one could never prepare entirely. we noticed last week he started slowing down drastically and was just laying around asleep all day. he stoppled eating on saturday and that's when tony knew he would not be around another day. after he got sick in april with the lung infection and we nursed him back to health, we figured any day he would pass away. so just about every day when we got back home we would check up on him when he did not come to the gate to greet us. we were always so afraid to go looking for him in the backyard because we were afraid of finding him dead. when i did find him, i would not want to disturb him so i would just talk to him while he spoke back to me by wagging his tail. over the weekend he pretty much just slept and when i did go over to pet him he was not very responsive and he did not wag his tail at all. that's when i figured it was his time. we are so thankful that we were with him on his last days. on sunday night tony tried to cover him but roc decided he wanted to lay on the grass instead of his pillow. we both walked outside one last time and i pet him for a while with roxxy on my side. i streched his front left leg to make him comfortable and pet his head. he looked at me with those big brown eyes that he could barely keep open. i did not say goodbye because in my heart i did not want to let go. like i've said on my my previous post about him he was such a great friend, a great pet, an awesome companion and man's true best friend. he has given us so many great memories and for that i am thankful for. he will be missed greatly. we love you roc!

Summer 2005 waiting for treats
Xmas 2003
Fall 2005

Halloween 2005