Rainbow Bridge Alert- Anna Rose the Second (24 May 2005 - 6 January 2019)

Yesterday morning, our beloved Anna Rose the Second left for the Rainbow Bridge while she was having her nightly power beauty nap.  She had been diagnosed with congestive heart failure last year and was on medication, which had apparently handled it.  Late last Thursday she hacked up phlegm, and again Friday night.  Saturday she  continued to expectorate, and we attempted to get her to the vet to soothe her Dad's fears.  The office closed early but since she had an appointment for today and was not in any pain or distress, we thought she would be ok until her appointment.  I had to syringe water for her as she was not interested in either her food or her water dish- wanting only to sleep.  (Her usual behavior when she has been on crate rest in the past)  When we went to bed at midnight, she fell asleep near my head and later buried herself underneath all of the covers, which she has never done in the six years that she has lived with us.  Around 4:40 in the morning her Dad woke up and checked on her- discovering that his angel had earned her wings.  He woke me and we wrapped her up and placed her in a box and called the vet's office.

Sunday was a long day and Geoff was and continues to be grief stricken- no owner to tell him that he could share her recliner, no owner to be carried in and out for her tours of the backyard, no owner demanding her meals, no owner needing to be taken to her big bed for the night.  

This morning, I put her in the car for one last trip, but Geoff could not bring himself to look.  I arrived shortly after 8 to find that the office had only just heard our messages from the day before.  My grief was manifested with the weight on my chest which threatened to break out when I had to pick out her urn.  I was finally able to cry once I left the office.

Geoff will be bringing Anna home next week- one final ride in his work truck.  Appropriate as she is the only one to have ever ridden in it and she loved going car with her Daddy.

Please keep Geoff, Snoopy, Sweetie and I in your prayers- two food bowls are simply not enough.

Happy Birthday Dad

 Today is our Dad's 43rd birthday!  We are giving him his gifts tonight when he gets home from work, but WHN gave him hers this morning- A Christmas Story pajama set!  We have posted a LOT of photos from our past year- all of Anna Rose and her devoted slave-  the love that they had for each other was beautiful to see and we all miss her terribly, Dad the most- he is lost without her.  (Her ashes are home now and are on his bedside table- he has her close by) 

The LOOK

Her first sit by self!

Her birthday last year

Their first ever photo together- WHN knew there would be trouble ahead!

Cleveland Religious Freedom March

Memorial Day 2012- learning how to cook!

Father's Day 2012

Look of ADoration

Rainbow Bridge walk 24 June 2012

A Treat and Toy Swap, sponsored by Dachshund Nola and Cole!

Our swap pressies from Dachshund Nola and the Minions 3

Tasha showing us how to destuff a stuffy

Dear Blogville,

WHN and Dad would like to thank you for your prayers and condolences concerning Anna Rose going to the Bridge last week.  We do not know what we would have done without it. 

Blogville's beloved Queen of Florida, Dachshund Nola and her Minions 3, together with Cole of All the Small Stuff and Weiner Tales (the badge is in the right sidebar) sponsored a treat and toy swap- We pawticipated and were paired with Her Majesty, Dachshund Nola!  (Tasha hopes that when her spiritual twin Lily Belle finds out that she is not jealous- after all she met Aunt Cindy this past weekend!)  The photos show the goodies that were pawsonally picked out for us by HMDN (Her Majesty, Dachshund Nola)- WHN will be framing the pawtrait of HMDN for us to gaze upon each day .  WHN made HMDN and the Minions 3 their own pawsonalized tshirts to wear while travelling incognito among them the puparrazzi that are infesting Florida this time of year- you can see them here!:  http://dachshundnola.blogspot.com/2012/10/treattoy-swap.html?showComment=1351521246235