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Sunday, December 14, 2003

Saying Goodbye

Yesterday we put Kathy's dog Canaan down. She's been sick for a while I think but last Monday we found a huge tumor. From that time onward, I knew that our time with her was limited. Not limited in the vague, general way all of our time is but limited in a more more immediate way. We could see how much pain she was in and we could tell how aggresive the tumor was. So over the week I took time to be with her; a way to bring closure to my time with her.

Kathy got Canaan at around the same time she got Sam for me. As our relationship grew, Sam and Canaan learned to get along and soon we meshed. Canaan became the "squirrelly girl" due to her penchant for chasing the small furry woodland creatures in and around Gainesville, FL. She went to Salt Lake with Kathy and returned when we got married. As a family we went to Kansas and she learned to chase birds across the prairie. When we moved down here to Georgia she had to endure the loss of Sam the same as we did and she was a lot less excited when we brought first one and then two golden retriever puppies home than we were. Still, she whipped them into shape and we were a pack.

Now she's running with Sam again and we have eleven years worth of memories of life with her. Goodbye, Canaan and we'll met again in a big field with lots of room to run. Remember to bring Sammy dog.

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