I just unloaded two litters of puppies I had been fostering the last week of June. I had them pretty much since they were about 1 week old. Fully 3 months old when they went back.
Not too bad the first month when they were just tiny things. Quite a bit more interesting when you have six rambunctious Black Labrador Retriever puppies and six equally rambunctious Beagle mixes, plus their mothers and plus my own two Jack Russell Terriers.
Back to just the two Jack Russells, plus a bunch of chickens.
My beautiful girl Artemis passed from cancer at the beginning of the year. I have never experienced a more heart wrenching loss. Now I am finally ready to rescue another dog and hopefully in the next few weeks we will have another dog.
Part of me feels guilty but Artie was such a loving and generous dog I know she would have loved to have a buddy.
My mother used to have an African grey parrot she loved it and it loved her but the bird hated the rest of us I think it was jealous lol those are very pretty birds enjoy
I understand. I still miss Anabel greeting me, even running out to the car when I pulled in the garage, but she was 13 & with failing kidneys. Not crying buckets any more, though.
Consider yourselves honoring Artemis in rescuing another dog & best wishes.