WILLOW-ROC MINIATURE HORSE FARM

WE STILL TALK ABOUT AND TRUELY MISS THIS GENTLE SOUL.  IT IS NOT OFTEN THAT YOU ARE BLESSED WITH AN ANIMAL THAT WAS YOUR FRIEND AND YOUR GUARDIAN FOR OVER A DECADE.  WE COULD ALWAYS COUNT ON HIM TO LET US KNOW WHEN THERE WAS A THUNDERSTORM BREWING (YOU SEE HE WAS TERRIFIED OF STORMS)   THIS WONDERFUL CREATURE LEFT HIS PAWPRINTS ON ALOT OF HEARTS WHEN HE DIED AND WE  FEEL HONORED TO HAVE BEEN A PART OF HIS LIFE...

 OLE' PEARLY WILL BE SO MISSED BY EVERYONE HERE.  SHE LIVED OUT HER LIFE WITH ONLY US AS HER CARETAKERS.  I BROUGHT HER HOME AS A LITTLE BLACK PIGGY THE SIZE OF A TWO-LITER COKE BOTTLE BACK IN 1996. SHE WAS A FAVORITE AT OUR HOME AND KIDS WOULD COME BY "JUST TO SEE THE PIG".   WE KNEW THE END WAS NEAR AND SHE PASSED QUIETLY IN HER SLEEP JANUARY 31-07.

IT IS SAID THAT YOU ONLY COME ACROSS A GOOD HUNTING DOG ONCE IN YOUR LIFETIME.  I BELEIVE THIS TO BE TRUE & WE WERE FORTUNATE TO HAVE BEEN OWNED BY ONE!  HER NAME WAS "PATCHES".  WE PURCHASED HER BACK IN 1995.  MY HUBBY IS A HUNTER & WE DECIDED TO FIND HIM A GOOD HUNTING COMPANION. WE LOOKED AT SEVERAL DIFFERENT HUNTING BREEDS AND DECIDED ON A LITTLE GERMAN SHORTHAIR POINTER PUP.  SHE WAS THE ONLY LIVER -TICKED PUP OF THE LITTER  & WAS ALREADY POINTING AT 6 WKS OLD AND SO FOR 12 YEARS SHE SHARED HER LIFE WITH US.  SHE BECAME MY HUSBANDS' BEST FRIEND & FOR ALL THOSE YEARS THEY SHARED A WONDERFUL BOND AND COUNTLESS HUNTING TRIPS TOGETHER.  PATCH HAD HEALTH ISSUES IN THE LAST YEARS OF HER LIFE WITH ARTHRITIS & HEART PROBLEMS.  SHE PASSED ON JULY 29TH-2007.  WORDS CANNOT DESCRIBE THE VOID SHE LEFT WHEN SHE DIED & THE HUGE HOLE LEFT IN MY HUSBANDS HEART BY HER PASSING.  HAPPY HUNTING "PATCHY"

     I THINK THE GOOD LORD SOMETIMES SENDS US OUR PETS FOR A REASON WE NEVER FULLY UNDERSTAND IF ONLY FOR A SHORT TIME.  CHASEY, I THINK WAS ONE OF THEM.  HE WAS ONLY THREE WHEN WE SADLY BUT HUMANELY PUT HIM TO SLEEP.  HIS SEIZURES HAD BECOME SEVERE AND THE QUALITY OF HIS LIFE SUFFERED GREATLY TOWARD THE END...AS HUMANS WE CAN BE SELFISH AND TRY TO FIND REASONS TO "KEEP" THEM HERE WITH US, BUT IN THE END, IT WAS TIME TO LET HIM GO.  HE WAS A LARGE BUMBLY OVERSTUFFED FURBALL... MY PAL AND CONFIDANT & PROTECTOR DURING MY RECUPERATION FROM AN ACCIDENT...HE HELPED ME THROUGH THE GOOD DAYS AND THE BAD... A GIANT BUNDLE OF LOVE...HIS HEART WAS AS BIG AS HE WAS...ALWAYS EAGER TO PLEASE...ALWAYS HAPPY...ALWAYS HE WAS THERE CARRYING HIS TEDDY BEAR, READY TO PLAY, ALWAYS...FOREVER LOYAL TO HIS FAMILY,  RIGHT TO THE END...CHASEY-DOG, YOU WERE ONLY WITH US A SHORT TIME BUT YOU DID YOUR JOB WELL AND YOU HAVE LEFT THE BIGGEST HOLE IN OUR HEARTS ...GOOD-BYE MY FRIEND!

 

 

 

 

 

 

"UNTIL ONE HAS LOVED AN ANIMAL, A PART OF ONE'S SOUL REMAINS UNAWAKENED"-A DONATION IN CHASEY'S NAME HAS BEEN SENT TO KANSAS STATE UNIVERSITY COLLEGE OF VETERINARY MEDICINE-RESEARCH DEPT-THANK YOU DR.SCOTT-DR.MIKE OF AUGUSTA ANIMAL CLINIC FOR ALL YOU HAVE DONE!