The absence of little foot steps :-(

Today was a very sad day! okay we'll back up a couple of days or weeks even maybe. For the past few weeks my sister's dog Zoiee has been not her usual self. It started out with what we thought was an injury to her neck. The vet put her on some pain meds and she seemed to get a little better. well after the pain meds ran out it was back to the "non usual" Zoiee. This past weekend it only got worse, and she wouldnt really interact too much with the other two dogs. Then monday and tuesday of this week she deteriorated even more. My mom finally took her to the vet, for yet the 3rd or 4th time since all this started, on wednesday. Well they wanted to keep her over night cuz she was extremely dehydrated and they were going to get her some fluids started. they thought she might have a bowl obstructions due to a shadowed area in her lower tummy/intestines. The plan was that she would spend the night to get up some strenght and then they would possibly do surgery. . . sadly she didnt make it through the night. :-( I got the phone call this morning from my sister who could barely catch her breath since she was crying so hard. I cant even begin to put myself in her place. I would literally die if anything happened to reina. . . so i dont know how she is going to get over the pain. Hopefully time will help heal her, but it will be a long time before her smile returns to normal. I was also a wreck after she told me what had happened. i was pretty close with zoiee too, and i dont know how reina is going to handle it cuz they were the best of buds. I found the following poem that i thought i would share:

Memories are golden

They say memories are golden.
Well, maybe that is true.
We never wanted memories.
We only wanted you.
A million times we needed you,
A million times we cried.
If love alone could have saved you,
You never would have died.
In life we loved you dearly,
In death we love you still.
In our hearts you hold a place
No one could ever fill.
If tears could build a stairway,
And hartache make a lane.
We'd walk the path to heaven,
And bring you home again.
Our family chain is broken,
And nothing seems the same.
But as god calls us one by one,
The chain will link again.

Zoiee, We love and miss you with all of our hearts. your memory will never be far from our thoughts every day! you were the spunkiest little thing i had ever met, and i am devistated that you are no longer hear with us. My only hope is that you are in a better place now, and that you are free to roam and jump with all of the other "Angel Dogs". We miss you a great deal down here, but we know you are no longer suffering and you are free of any pain you were in. please continue to be by mady's side and give her what comfort you can. we will always love you.