Author: maggie

Maggie was diagnosed with soft tissue sarcoma on her left knee. She had amputation done on October 20, 2009. Four days after surgery she had a low grade fever and was off her food for two weeks! Trying times.. I am grateful and so pleased with how she is progressing now.

The Maggie Moo Fund for Tripawd Rehab

Maggie, look what you’ve gone and accomplished!  I am proud to announce to you that this rehab fund has been named in your honor!  I am beyond honored by this and I am sure you are too!  From the blog:

“If it weren’t for Miss Maggie Moo, and her mom Tracy, we would likely never have become so passionate about stressing the importance of rehabilitation for new amputee dogs—and Wyatt Ray probably wouldn’t be as fit as he is!”

Please go to the link below to read how to take advantage of this fund!

The Maggie Moo Fund for Tripawd Rehab

So let’s get the word out!!  For those tripawds in need, I do hope you will take advantage of this offer from the Fund!

Tracy & Spirit Maggie

 

Maggie on balance disc
Maggie on balance disc

In Memory of Maggie….

 

….I was presented this wall hanging of Maggie this past weekend at a Wag It Games Trial!  Every dog that has competed in Wag It Games, that have gone to the Rainbow Bridge, get honored in this fashion.  This is sooo special…note the three paws in the corners of the hanging and the heart in the left bottom corner.  Maggie was the inspiration to the “Heart Dog Program” in Wag It Games,  for disabled dogs.  Disabled dogs can compete with exercise modifications for their disabilities….

You will NEVER be forgotten, Maggie, by myself and by MANY others….

 

“Have courage for the great sorrows of life and patience for the small ones;

And when you have laboriously accomplished your daily task, go to sleep in peace.”

Victor Hugo

 

 

 

I can still feel you, Maggie….

As I was looking at this photo today of you, it just made me think of how I can still feel you…

How I used to hold one of your front paws when you’d sleep..

How you had long toes..

How you had the softest fur on your head..

How you had a thick bushy tail with the end of it broken from birth..

How your fur at your right flank started to get rough feeling as you got sicker with kidney failure..

How loose your skin was at your neck and how thick your fur was on your neck..

How your black spots would get hot in the sun but your white fur wouldn’t…

I can still feel every inch of you, Maggie…I knew every inch of you after all the years we were together..

You allowed me to work on you from massage, to t-touch, to giving IV fluids…never arguing over anything I did to you…to help you…

I’d do it all over again for you Maggie….I miss you so…

 

July 2012 - I helped her up on this rock although she WOULD try to jump up there!
July 2012 – I helped her up on this rock although she WOULD try to jump up there!

 

In Memory of Maggie….

One whole year since I put Maggie to rest….it all seems so unreal to me.  It’s been such an “odd” year without her.  I would say I am NOT back to normal.   I am not used to her being gone AT ALL.  Will I ever be?  I highly doubt it.  The saying “time heals all wounds”….not true.  Time hasn’t healed my loss of Maggie…

A little picture video I made of  Maggie’s incredible life…

And some photo’s tonight, sitting with Maggie, watching the sun go down….

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♥  ♥  ♥

Vivid dreams….

…of you, last night, Maggie…. ♥

We were at a rally obedience dog trial…you were off in the distance laying down in a field.  I was worried about having to take you to the vet to put you to rest due to kidney failure…I talked with my vet at the trial(why was she there?) and she said no worries, that she had something for you and all would be well…..then I remembered, well, I hadn’t had to give you prednisone lately to make you eat…you were eating on your own very well…. I had to tell Gina the good news…

Is this a sign?  Some of sort of sign from you?  That all is well with you and you are eating and feeling fine?

Crazy dreams….this photo of you from 2007 is similar to what I saw in my dream..bright white coat and glistening in the sun… ♥

Maggie summer -07
Summer 2007
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Love you Maggie!

Time to check in with you Maggie…

Actually that is  a silly title…I think of you so often, Maggie.  I’m sure you are fully aware of how much I do!

Last weekend, Haley and I went for a walk in the field behind the house for the first time this Spring.  Thought of you when we got to “our”(yours and mine!) “Thinking Rock”, as I used to call it.  You and I would sit up there on that rock and just overlook the lake and our yard down below.

Standing on the "Thinking Rock"
Standing on the “Thinking Rock”
grass a bit long for this tripawd but Maggie managed...
grass a bit long for this tripawd but you managed…back on our “Thinking Rock”
the view from our "Thinking Rock"
the view from our “Thinking Rock”.  Ice still on the lake…

 

and the view from our yard to the field...
and the view from our yard to the field…Maggie’s resting place under those two large pines…

You loved to walk in the fields…mouse hunting was a great thing to do..

great smells in the field
great smells in the field

Or just taking in the views….

looking toward home...
looking toward home…

Miss you soooo much, Maggie…it’s the first Spring without you.  Got through the first winter but now emotions are all stirred up yet again with a changing season….

My gorgeous Maggie...
My gorgeous Maggie…
Sharing
Alone but together,
we walk this trail,
To you there is nothing
I could not tell
Walking in silence
engulfed in nature’s song,
We share so much
as we go along.
Kindred spirits,
friends for all time….
You and I,
we’re two of a kind.
grass too long...couldn't go far...
Love you Maggie!

Squirrels, squirrels and more squirrels….

Or was it the same one only seen on three different occasions?

Maggie, I have to tell you, I have seen on three different walks over the

weekend, three squirrels. And they weren’t on their designated “Squirrel Trail”

They were on YOUR trail! I think they know you aren’t around anymore

to keep them off YOUR trail.

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When I saw them, I remembered back to a time you did a very bad thing

trying to get one at our house. Now, that said, you never, ever, EVER tried

to destroy or chew anything that you weren’t supposed to. Even as a pup!

But this one occasion, it was a squirrel that put you ‘over the edge’. You were

very much an adult when this happened too but if I recall correctly, you did

have four legs then, so could really

run fast! You chased that squirrel around

and around the garage, then thru the flower garden next to the house. Until

it finally scurried up INSIDE the corner of the house trim. I was in the house

watching you. And then, all of a sudden you started ripping apart the vinyl

sided corner of the house after that squirrel! Good thing I was watching you

and got you to stop!

I don’t know if that squirrel ever did come back out. I think he waited until

you came back in the house!

Just thought I’d show everyone how C-U-T-E you were as a pup…here’s a

great one. See, you didn’t even chew my boots as a pup! Missing you….

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Need to talk to you tonight Maggie…

 

Today has been one of those days, Maggie, where you are in my thoughts a lot.

Someone shared this with me tonight….very fitting indeed:

Afterlife & A Loss For Words

I stood by your bed last night, I came to have a peep….
I could see that you were crying…you found it hard to sleep.

I whined to you softly as you brushed away a tear.
“It’s me, I haven’t left you…I’m well, I’m fine, I’m here.”

I was close to you at breakfast, I watched you pour the tea.
You were thinking of the many times, your hands reached down to me.

I was with you at the shops today, your arms were getting sore.
I longed to take your parcels, I wish I could do more.

I was with you at my grave today, you tend it with such care.
I want to reassure you that I am not lying there.

I walked with you toward the house, as you fumbled for your key,
I gently put my paw on you. I smiled and said, “It’s me.”

You looked so very tired, and sank into a chair.
I tried so hard to let you know that I was standing there.

It’s possible for me to be so near you every day.
To say to you with certainty, “I never went away.”

You sat there very quietly, then smiled, I think you knew…
In the stillness of that evening, I was very close to you.

The day is over…I smile and watch you yawning
And say, “Goodnight, God bless, I’ll see you in the morning.”

And when the time is right for you to cross the brief divide,
I’ll rush across to greet you and we will stand, side-by-side.

I have so many things to show you, there is so much for you to see.
Be patient, live your journey out…then come home to be with me.

-Author Unknown

This winter has really been horribly cold…but I managed to clean out your trail of the grown up bushes from over the summer.  Missed your help!!!  Think of you so often when I walk on the trails, this being the first winter without you – I miss you!!!!!!!!!!!!

I got a sign to mark “your trail”…I think you’d agree, you look damn good on the sign.

I know you know, Maggie, but I miss you dearly…you were the BEST.  I love you, Maggie, love you very much.  I wish I could hold your paw and rub your soft ears…

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January 11, 2000

…today would of been Maggie’s 14th birthday…

Maggie,

I still miss you soooo much.

When I walk Haley out where you are buried,

the wind chimes always seem to chime when I walk by,

I stop, say “hi Maggie”, shed a tear and keep walking…

The snow has melted enough around your “three” solar lights,

the sun charged them and even after dark, one was still glowing…

“Hello, Maggie… I love you.”

I finished cleaning the grown up bushes on your winter trail,

sure missed having your help cleaning the trails.

I so wished you had made it to the next milestone I had hoped for,

your 14th birthday.

But it was not meant to be…but I know you’re looking down on me,

I can see you young again, four healthy legs, playing with a stick…

Happy birthday Maggie….thinking of you today and always…

snowshoeing Feb 2009
snowshoeing Feb 2009