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Our Pyr Sasha joined us about a year ago. We live in
Kansas City and all the family is in the Milwaukee, WI area. In that year
we have visited 4 or so times.
My husband's father has been in ill health for the last couple
of years (Diabetes and heart problems and 82 years of living). On each of
our visits Sasha would immediately head down the hall to visit Grandpa in the
den and would walk slowly by his side as he came out to see the rest of the
family. (Diabetes had robbed him of feeling in his feet and he was very
unsteady but resented attempts at helping him.) He always came out with a
hand resting gently on her shoulders.
He passed away on Sunday, March 3rd and we left immediately
for WI. On Monday morning when we arrived at the house Sasha headed for
the den. She emerged immediately looking a little confused and walked down
the hall to his bedroom, which is where he passed away (she had never gone in
the room before). She made a brief stop in the room, walked out to my
husband nuzzled his hand and laid down under the kitchen table with a large
sigh. During the following days that we were there she never set foot down
the hall. She knew he was gone and would never be coming
back.
Some people would say that she had picked up on our feelings
(truthfully one of those passings that we all viewed as a blessed release for
him). She was very subdued at the house and her old self during the
evening at our daughter's house playing with the 2 Rat Terrorists our daughter
is currently fostering and the one that is there full time. She seemed to
sense that one was a place of mourning and the other was not. Almost as
though she understood the proper etiquette.
Caryl
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