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Phoebe

November 19, 2016 by

My first poodle was named Maxie.  About three years after she passed I had a dream.  Maxie was swimming toward me underwater.  We met in the middle and she kissed me right on the lips.  I was ecstatic for several days!  And after that I started thinking more and more about getting another poodle.  I got Phoebe for my birthday…my own gift to myself.  What a joy!  She was four months old and I could carry her in my jacket.  She was am absolutely adorable puppy – playful and rambuctious and full of poodle antics.  I lived in Norfolk at that time and she would often come to work with me and sit in my chair.  I worked long hours as Director of a shelter for homeless families and she was the perfect companion.  She loved walking on the beachfront in Virginia Beach – up and down she raced chasing the tide so as to not get wet.  Walking in Seashore State Park was also a favorite.  She slept with me and she often wanted to get under the covers to cuddle.  Such a sweetheart.  She often helped me fall back to sleep when I woke in the middle of the night.  We moved to Colorado about five years and lived with my sister and her two labs.  They co-existed very easily and had a nice home together.  She also made friends at the dog park in the Gunbarrel area outside of Boulder when I moved to a condo out there.    I loved her completely every day.  She has come twice to me in dreams since she made her transition to the other side. I know she is running free in a younger body and that she is often with me to comfort me.  For this I am very grateful and this knowledge has helped me in my grief and mourning process.  I also want to thank everyone who helped in the end when it got very difficult.  Phoebe was diagonosed with bladder cancer and the symptoms just got to be too much.  I am grateful for Dr. Lisa at Home to Heaven who helped Phoebe make her transition and for her caring ways that made it all not as difficult.  Godspeed little Phoebe.  I will always love you and hope to see you again. 

 

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