Troubles
TROUBLES WAS BROUGHT HOME BY MY SISTER ONE ICY NIGHT SHE SAID HE
WAS AT HER PLACE OF WORK. THIS WAS IN 1983 I THINK IF I REMEMBER
RIGHT. MY MOTHER WAS HIS BEST FRIEND. TROUBLES BECAME A HOUSE DOG
AFTER MY DAD HAD SAID " I WONT HAVE A DOG IN THE HOUSE"
TROUBLES WENT FISHING AND CAMPING OUT ON THE LAKE, HE WENT
EVERYWHERE MY MOM AND DAD DID. WHEN MY MOTHER WAS PLACED IN THE
HOSPITAL, TROUBLES REFUSED TO EAT DAD AND I HAD TO MAKE HIM MAD IN
ORDER TO GET HIM TO EAT OR DRINK. WHILE I WAS IN SCHOOL HE KNEW WHAT
TIME I SHOULD BE HOME AND HE WAITED AT THE DOOR, WHEN IT WAS TIME FOR
DAD TO COME HOME HE WAS ALSO AT THE DOOR. WHEN I MOVED FROM HOME
TROUBLES STILL KNEW WHEN I WAS COMING HOME.
THIS LAST YEAR TROUBLES A KNOT ON HIM IT HAD TO BE REMOVED, HE
GOT BETTER, THEN ANOTHER ONE CAME UP AND IT HAD TO BE REMOVED ALSO.
HE HAS ARTHRITIS AND HAS A HARD TIME GETTING UP AND DOWN, HE IS
BEGING TO HAVE MORE BAD DAYS THEN GOOD. WHEN THEY WENT CAMPING THIS
YEAR, THEY HAD TO LIFT HIM IN AND OUT OF THE TRAILER, BUT HE WAS GOING
TO GO, WITH A WAG OF HIS TAIL AND A SMILE ON HIS FACE.
DECEMBER 19,1998 TROUBLES WENT TO THE RAINBOW BRIDGE, WHERE HE
IS LIKE A PUPPY AGAIN, AWAITING MOM AND DAD TO COME FOR HIM TO GO
FISHING AGAIN.
MOM WAS UNABLE TO WRITE ANYTHING EVERY TIME SHE TRIES SHE WILL
BREAK DOWN CRYING AN CAN'T START ANYTHING, SO I'M DOING THIS FOR HER.
I ALSO WILL NOT FORGET HIM, HE WAS A MEMBER OF OUR FAMILY.
MIKE, NANCY, TRENA, THREASA, AND TAMMIE HITT