Reading from THE PAWPRINTS ON MY HEART 

     Beau, Kipper, and Tracker, like all of our animals, when we brought each of you home we promised to always love and protect you and we did. We promised to have patience while teaching you wonderful things, and we did. Like all of our animals, you were all very special and never had to promise us anything, but you always showered us with unconditional love and affection, each building special places in our hearts.

    Kipper, you were the chocolate child who never wanted to leave my side. Yours was the first face I saw in the morning, and you stayed by my side of the bed at night. You were the patient one who took pups, kittens, and other animals that came through our doors under your wing and nurtured them, something that is rare in male animals.

    Tracker, the coppery dude that you were, you were always so happy and eager to track and find whatever it was I was working on with you. What great adventures our walks became because I never knew what delightful scent you would discover and were so eager to track. How happy you were when you found what you were searching for.  I miss your big ole goobers, your musical bay, and how you would snuggle with me, laying your great coppery head in my lap while you napped. I felt so helpless and all alone when you became so sick and I knew you would not recover.

    Beau, we will always remember how you were the first to comfort us when we were feeling sad. You made us laugh with all of your antics and the tricks that you would pull on us and the other animals in our house, and no one was immune. And oh, how you would laugh at us in your own way when you were successful with your tricks that you frequently played on us. You brought smiles to kids and people of all ages. You also welcomed and nourished young animals no matter what species they were. Our hearts are so broken that you, like Kipper and Tracker, had to become sick so fast and leave this world and us behind, but we also have comfort in knowing that your illness was not long term where you had to suffer so great a time. We also have joy knowing that you were greeted happily and welcomed by Kipper and Tracker when you crossed that Rainbow Bridge, and that you are now well again, playing with them again like you used to. We know that you missed them both greatly when they suddenly died. We know that you will place a smile on our Heavenly Father’s face like you did us as you romp and play tricks on the angels that carried you there. We can just picture you borrowing their wings like you did our laundry, playing “Catch Me If You Can” as you did down here on earth. We know your journey on earth that our Heavenly Father planned for you has been completed, and it was time for you to go back and be with Him again. Our sweet Kipper, Beau, and Tracker you will never be forgotten along with all of our other animals that we have loved here on earth, for we know that we will all be together again someday.

    Thus ends the earthly adventures of Kipper, Beau, and Tracker, the original two Labs and A Bloodhound, and I thank our Heavenly Father for all of the special time that we all had together here on the earth. I have all of the videos, pictures, and memories that we all created together, but most of all, forever will be the paw prints that you all have left in my heart. ©