Sunday 8th December 2013 –
My best friend in the whole world crossed the ‘rainbow bridge’ in the early hours of this morning.
My darling, darling ‘Golda’ is not with me any more. I hope that she has gone to a better place other than this so very cruel world; both for animals and also for so many humans.
I had the delight of knowing her and enjoying her company as my ultimate best friend for some 10 years. For every single day of that time, we were always together; throughout the entire day; the only time of any day that we were not a pairing was when I have to visit the doctor or the hospital, which was a pretty infrequent event. The rest of each and every day we shared together – a kind of ‘me and my shadow’ type pairing. She was just like a beautiful shadow; never letting me out of her sight whenever possible, and always being within a very short radius of me. She always listened to my frequent gripes about where the world was going wrong; and what the carefree politicians should be doing to try and sort things out. She listened; she loved and above all, she gave the utmost affection.
Over the years together we regularly attended the live export demonstrations at Dover harbour, Kent, England; where she was a firm favorite with everyone that became her friend – and that was the most easy thing to do – she trusted the hand of affection from everyone; never showing any fear or malice. She was such a kind and gentle friend, you could not fail to fall in love with her the moment you saw her – and being so intelligent, she always knew that she was in the company of ‘animal friends’ who simply loved her to bits.
I was fortunate to first get to know her when she was around one year old. Introduced by a mutual friend; she was looking for a ‘forever home’ instead of being used as a breeding machine in mainland EU. I remember seeing her for the very first time, and then taking her back home with me for a weeks ‘trial’ to see if we bonded and hit it off together. Actually, the bonding only took about five minutes; before we even got back to the car; destiny had dealt the good pack and it was showing so many positive signs. By the time I had driven the short distance back to my house, we had become an ‘item’; never to be separated again for the following ten years. From the very first hour of our meet, I fell in love with her so kind and so gentle ways immediately; and from that moment, she showed me nothing but devoted love and attention which stayed with me right up to her departing for rainbow bridge early this morning.
That planned one week ‘bonding trial’ actually gotten completed within about the first five minutes of the test, and I knew and experienced complete and utter devotion and love from my beautiful ‘Golda’ from the very first minute that we ever met. She meant the entire world to me; and through her and her ‘oh so gentle’ ways; I continued to venture down the road of compassion to all animals; often by-passing the wish to meet with, or even communicate on a face to face basis with members of the so called human, intelligent race.
Animals are so much more in so many ways. They show no malice or inflict no cruelty on another living being for the sake of ‘fun’. That is where we and they are different; so very different.
She gave everything in the way of love and devotion, and expected very little in return; just like a true friend. But I loved her more than anything, and she knew it. I tried to return the love she gave me all the time; we enjoyed each others company; being glad to just wander off and get away from the rest. I don’t think that I can say that about many members of the human species that I have encountered in my half century.
Her passing this morning is the first day of a future that will never ever be the same again, as she is not here to greet me each morning with that wander up, wag of the tail and the lick of my nose as she has done every day for the past decade. That is gonna be hard to accept, and even harder to encounter on a daily basis.
It is sad when you loose your own beloved animal; but things are made a little easier in the fact that over the past few weeks; I have helped share with other good folk in the re-homing of around 20 dogs here in England which were in the infamous ‘Pozega pound’ in Serbia. Dogs which were all destined to die such a horrible, barbaric death – now saved and re-homed here in England for the remainder of their lives. I have lost my beloved ‘Golda’ today; but in another way; we have helped to provide better life long homes for several canine friends from Serbia. I know that despite today’s terrible personal loss; and believe me it is grossly bad; there is a new life being enjoyed now by many dogs that have been shipped over here from Serbia to their new ‘forever homes’. For the first time, they are experiencing love, affection and full bellies. That is one small crumb of the goodness of human compassion in what has been such an otherwise terrible day for myself and family.
So goodbye my darling ‘Golda’; forever in my heart and forever missed for the rest of time that I am on this planet. We will meet again someplace, sometime; and I cannot wait for that to happen and for us to just run, walk and play ball as we have done together over so many years.
You were one hell of a very special, beautiful dog; and I love you for the joy and happiness that you delivered to me continually over each and every day.
Cross the bridge; but wait for me my little special one – I will be along to meet up with you again sometime. Then we can experience all the joy and fun of our past friendship and love once again.
Take care until then – my beautiful, beautiful Golda.
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