SPARTAN: A big dog with a beautiful heart of love...

SPARTAN : A big dog with a beautiful  heart of love♥️🐾 

It’s funny the things I am  remembering now that you are gone..

Hearing you in the downstairs bathroom, loudly lapping as you take a very long drink of water from the toilet bowl, even though there is a large container of water that slowly recedes as it becomes empty for you to drink ..

I have seared in my mind how you used to stare at me and blink messages of love as I blinked back with much love and joy ..

Your eyes always were the soul of your being. You could not message me enough how much you loved me ..

I recall the deep sadness and grief you exhibited  when we lost Roxy .. I don’t think you ever got over losing her.. She could not be replaced, although Scarlett tried, after we brought her  home from the animal shelter .. She never gave up trying.

I feel you against me pressing hard to show me that you deeply loved me.

I loved how, even though you were so ill, you spent every night climbing the stairs up to our bedroom.. How the day you passed, you had slowly made it up stairs, jumped on the bed, panting hard, as if you had run a marathon.. You just wanted to be near us.. 

You have always been the epitome of love .. 

You always thought you were that little puppy we brought home, nearly knocking us down, happy to see us, because after all, we had been gone for an hour .. For you, it was an eternity..

The most endearing memory of all, is the night time game you and dad played .. It always seemed, you and I, Roxy or Scarlett and Mac were already in bed waiting for dad .. You would always lay right on top of the covers by dads pillow making it difficult for dad to pull back the covers to get into bed .. Dad finally realized it was a game so he would always act like it was the first time you played.. You  would never give up your position until he lifted you and the blankets  .. Never an easy task.. because you were a big boy .. Every night you did this and every night dad would act exasperated.. Oh how I will miss that game .. 

Soon enough my tears will dry.. but until then, my heart  beats memories that will sustain me until I see you again, my precious Spartan..

Give Roxy a kiss for me .. Tell Roxy, Dempsey, Tyson and Diamond I love and miss them  ..

I’ll see them soon!!

Thank you Jesus.. for showing me NO GREATER LOVE ...

Patsy McNutt Morgan

02/18/18