Week 2 – I have to talk about Loretta. She’s dead. The Foster Lady told me that Loretta, an older pitbull girl at the shelter, was sent on to dog heaven and The Foster Lady was very, very upset about it. She said that Loretta was a true breed-ambassador and she spent a lot of time crying over Loretta. In fact, she still cries when she thinks of Loretta (pic on the left). You see, she had gone in to bathe Loretta, the day before she died. She was fine that day and she was going to be shown at Petsmart in the hopes that she would be adopted. Two weeks before that, she had been at Petsmart and some guy had said he really wanted her, and he never came back for her.
The Foster Lady was planning on taking Loretta out for the day, the following day and we heard that Loretta was taken to the back, for possible pregnancy testing. The next thing she heard was that she was dead from pregnancy complications. The Foster Lady is sad, angry and sad again. She wishes she had just taken Loretta out of the shelter too, because she was fine the day before when The Foster Lady gave her a bath!!!
Loretta was very special to The Foster Lady because she was a very mellow, laid-back, red and white pitbull like Meathead. She had lived her life in a vacant lot in Germantown and everyone at the shelter loved her. I know that whenever The Foster Lady would come to the shelter, she would go to Loretta, me and Missy as her most favorite girls, give us treats and walk us first in the yard. I’m glad Missy got adopted and I wish The Foster Lady were not so very sad about Loretta. Loretta looked a lot like the Meathead and I think that makes it even harder for The Foster Lady.
The Foster Lady was planning on taking Loretta out for the day, the following day and we heard that Loretta was taken to the back, for possible pregnancy testing. The next thing she heard was that she was dead from pregnancy complications. The Foster Lady is sad, angry and sad again. She wishes she had just taken Loretta out of the shelter too, because she was fine the day before when The Foster Lady gave her a bath!!!
Loretta was very special to The Foster Lady because she was a very mellow, laid-back, red and white pitbull like Meathead. She had lived her life in a vacant lot in Germantown and everyone at the shelter loved her. I know that whenever The Foster Lady would come to the shelter, she would go to Loretta, me and Missy as her most favorite girls, give us treats and walk us first in the yard. I’m glad Missy got adopted and I wish The Foster Lady were not so very sad about Loretta. Loretta looked a lot like the Meathead and I think that makes it even harder for The Foster Lady.
5 comments:
Ah Leni and family
Our sympathy to all who loved this beautiful girl.
Run free at the bridge Loretta with many new friends.
Dina I am so sad that Loretta had to go the way she did. I'll never forget when I tried to get her back in her kennel and she put on the breaks. I was sweating trying to coax her. Plus she was a big girl and I was scared a little lol. She just looked at me like we are going to stand here all night I am not going in their LOL. I miss her and I know that she is happy @ the bridge watching her babies!!
xxoo
Santina
I really loved Loretta too and am just heartbroken at the way things turned out for this sweet beautiful girl. I still cry when I think of her (and am crying as I write this thinking of her sweet face).
Teri
Me too Teri. I don't know why Loretta's passing was (is) so hard. It's been a month this weekend and I am still crying.
Perhaps it was her calm and collected nature, so different than most dogs wanting desperately to leave their cages.
She touched the people who walked her, loved her and bathed her, so deeply and in such a short time. She was truly a gift to us all that I will always treasure.
You are at peace now, my angel.
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