Oliver

Adopted Dec 20, 2020

Just a few days before Christmas, Scotty and I suffered a terrible tragedy..: Our "forever puppy," two year old Oliver, got out of the dog yard the night I was returning from New Hampshire. Scott was searching for him as my plane was landing, and I was going to Uber home and help chase him down if Scott hadn't caught him by the time I got there. But we were too late. It appears Oliver was chasing a squirrel, perhaps the one who always seemed to be taunting him from the fence around the dog yard. Oliver made it to the street and it most likely happened so fast... He was here one moment with his prize, living his best life. And then gone. Needles to say, we are devastated. Our hearts break about a million times every day. I've lost animal friends before, but never so young and so suddenly. I'm used to having a chance to say goodbye. It was just a week before that horrible night that we were once again saying that although we don't know his exact age, it seems that Oliver will be an eternal puppy. Will he still be so youthful and energetic and rambunctious in 10 years? Now we'll never know. Now he truly is our Forever Puppy. As full as our home and our lives are with all of our other animal family members, there is a definite emptiness... and an entirely different energy in the house now. Oliver was the embodiment of absolute joy. His zest for life was boundless. His absence is conspicuous. We got the call this afternoon to pick up his ashes so we'll be bringing him home this weekend and making a memorial for him in the dog yard. We don't really want to talk about it any further than this post and we are not really "okay." Just wanted to put it out there for anyone interested, who enjoyed his pictures and videos of his antics over the last year, or who met Oliver & loved him. And if you were lucky enough to meet him, then you surely loved him. He loved you. He loved us all.