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05/29/08
The Launch
Filed under: General, My Dogs
Posted by: The Gundogdoc @ 4:47 pm

This is a bitter sweet day as I launch a real BLOG section of the site. One week ago today we said good-bye to the inspiration for this site, Bottlelake’s Pride Lil Emma. To say it has been an emotional week would be an understatement as it was truly the most difficult thing  I have ever gone through. I have lost a number of dogs in my lifetime, and if my life follows a normal course there will be many more I follow down this same path. Emma was extremely special to me for many reasons, but for anyone who has ever owned a brown dog you’ll know what I mean when I say there are dogs and then there are Chessies.

Her heart and drive will be unmatched in my lifetime, of that I am sure.  I know that time will ease my pain, but I also know that this is a wound that will never completely heal. Over the course of the last year I have tried to rationalize why I went to such great lengths for this dog, and now at the end I can’t help but feel that I didn’t do enough.  The answers to both are because it was Emma.

She was a great dog in the field, but by no ones measure was she the hunting dog of a lifetime. At home she wasn’t a cuddly lapdog and actually spurned active affection. That being said at the end of the day no living being will ever be so totally devoted to me, coupled with her never give-up, never quit attitude in the field and while she wasn’t the hunting dog of a lifetime she truly was my dog of a lifetime.

I have to believe that our dogs will be there for us when our time to part arrives. As unselfish and unending as our dog’s love and affection is for us, I often wonder if they aren’t a little piece of heaven here to help guide us through our earthly journey. Some day Emma and I will once again share the sunrise on a marsh, until then it will be the memories of those times that get me through.

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