With a Heavy Heart.........

I have to write about the passing of one of our senior girls, Miss Thelka.

I know I was going to write upbeat stories this month, but in life terrible things happen. We really didn't anticipate that she would fail so fast , she had become incontinent and had no control over her bowels for the last month or so, but we could clean up and she was still able to get around. This last week she lost use of her back legs and was no longer able to walk , we also knew she was in pain. After a very tortuous decision she was taken to the doc to make her final passage to the Rainbow Bridge. It was very fast and our director was feeding her the favorite salmon cookies her sponsor  Cheryl would send every month. She knew she was loved and had her head in our directors lap as she took her final breath.She will be cremated and her ashes buried at Husky Haven.
Just a bit of back story  I think she was an owner turn in to animal control at the age of eight or nine. She wasn't the most affectionate Husky, but I understand that having your life change after so much time , she was much more wary than she probably had been. She had been with us for many years and that was probably where she was going to stay. She had her own huge fenced in area to play in and had the run of the house a lot of the time. In all I think her last years were happy ones.
The other day I sat with her for an hour or so , her head in my lap, just petting her. As I got up to go I realized that was the last time I would look in her beautiful eyes. I have been crying ever since.....
I would like to thank our friend Cheryl for all the treats, toys and donations she sent to Thelka. All of us really appreciated it, especially Thelka.

RIP dear girl. I know you are at the Rainbow Bridge running around with Elvis, Sparta, Speck and all the other Husky Haven dogs that have reached there before you.........