If you or someone you know has had a dog pass away, contact us so we can put them on our Fallen Angels page. Dogs have short lives and the least we can do is honor the memories of our loved ones. Just send me a picture and a small bio of the loved one that passed away and we will place them here for others to see. Honor your Fallen Angel by improving the life of another dog: rescue, volunteer, fight breed specific legislation, join The Dog Pack. Or you can purchase a brick in memory of your four legged friend from the Buy A Brick Program on the home page.
Send your emails to : brian@pompanodogpark.com

The Dog Pack is sad to say that we have another fallen angel:


SHAWDOW

He was very active right up to his last day. The first indication we had of a problem was on our morning trip to the dog park which he loved; he suddenly didn't want to move.

He loved his Florida and Massachusetts lives. He loved to travel and the long drive back and forth didn't bother him a bit. He actually seemed to enjoy it. All those new sniffs and places to explore!

He was a very vocal dog and never failed to let you know when he wanted something or he thought he was being done out of something. He knew how to open screen doors at will.

There were many Shadow stories we could tell. Such as when we arrived at our Massachusetts home after 14 hours on the second day of the drive north. He jumped out of the car and did a lap around the house then disappeared. When he slinked back and jumped back into the car we became aware that he had routed a skunk that had taken up residence under out porch. Welcome home!

He was truly a member of our family and we miss him terribly.

Chuck Moore

 

The Dog Pack is sad to say that we have another fallen angel:

 

This is still so very hard for me to write this email to you But I wanted to share this with you as my Kobie and I spent all of his last days in the area that is now the dog park just sitting in the sun and wishing he would get better . He really loved that area of grass and trees and he would run around until he was finally to weak to run and we would just sit... and I would cry quietly knowing that I would always have the memories of his happy face there . When I found out ( by accident ) that there was going to be a dog park there I walked over from the golf course restaurant and I broke down in tears.... happy tears that this area would now be a dog park .
I want to thank you and everyone that made and makes this happen for everyones loved Doggies . I now want to share something I wrote back in 2008 for my Kobie and would like for you to post this in his memory as it will be two years on July 18th and I plan to buy a brick for my Boy to have there to make me remember the happy times.

   
My Rottweiler 'Kobie'
Dealing with Lymphoma

Submitted by Robert Aratari

My boy was diagnosed on July 2, 2008 with lymphoma.  We took him in to the vet after I noticed a huge lump on his throat while laying with watching TV, like I always do.  We immediately took him to the vet, thinking it was an infection and the vet told he had cancer and that we needed to start chemo right away or he would be gone in days.

Well needless to say I was a wreck - thinking my baby boy was sick with cancer but I stayed strong and started giving him all the loving care that my vet said he would need with some great food and vitamin B-12 injections. I was cooking him sirloin steaks and sleeping on the floor with him most of the nights and he was starting to get better. I started to see the tumors go down to almost nothing and his energy stared to come back after the first and second week of chemo.

On the start of the third week we had to rush him in because I noticed he was not getting up and he was breathing hard. I spent the whole day with him inside his kennel (10 hours) while they gave him medicine and made his temperature come down. That was Saturday and we did get to go home, as he seemingly got better and my vet decided to continue his chemo on Wednesday and by Thursday night he was not getting up again and he didn’t get up to go outside to go to the bathroom.  He just eliminated where he was laying down, so I knew he was in very bad shape.

I screamed to wife that we had to get to the vet and we picked him up and took him in where we spent 7 hours trying to get him out of his condition and I cried so much because he kept turning his head around to look at me and just gave me his big beautiful eyes and stared me trying to tell me something and then he would try to get up but he was to weak to do so.

I insisted to the vet that he wanted to go outside so I picked him up and tried to stand him up to go outside but his legs collapsed, I began too break down and cry so the staff helped me put him back on the table. My vet turned to me and said “Robbie I think its time we stop his suffering”...these words I did not want to hear.

I then grabbed him with one arm around his him big beautiful head and hugged him, I whispered in his ear, "Kobie, I love you, my boy..." I then heard his breathing slow down and then stop.  I cried and held on to him for 15 minutes until my wife and several staff helped me pull myself away from him.

I  miss my “Bubba” that was his nickname so much that I am crying as I write this story... I will miss and love my boy forever.

Thank you so much for reading this, Robert Aratari


Nothing Gold Can Stay---- by Robert Frost

Nature's first green is gold

Her hardest hue to hold

Her early leaf's a flower;

But only so an hour.

Then leaf subsides to leaf.

So Eden sank to grief,

So dawn goes down to day.

Nothing gold can stay.