For as long as I can remember I’ve always wanted a dog. The day I went to
@racc_shelter to visit potential foster “Dinky” (🤣🤦🏻♀️) she frantically paced around the room, wanted nothing to do with me, I took her outside to poop and she immediately did the walking/kicking/scooting thing and all I could think to myself was… “how the hell am I gonna tell these people I don’t want this dog???” 🤣🤣🤣
Well considering the fact that her previous owner had passed and no one else in the family wanted her, I figured, hey, it’s just 2 weeks, why not? 3 days into that 2 week foster I quickly realized there was a whole lot more to this girl than her first impression lead me to believe, and there was absolutely no way I could pass up the opportunity to have her craziness be a part of my life. Loud, spunky, feisty, goofy, silly, and vibrant. She was all the things I wanted to be, except without any of the flaws. I don’t know if people really realized that I always took it as the highest compliment whenever anyone would tell us “Simone, she is literally you in dog form.”
Daisy, my mf girl, we truly did it all together. From that first apartment in Richmond, covid, the burbs, back to the city, boyfriends, breakups, new jobs, moving across the country, me in the ICU, you in the ICU 🤦🏻♀️ Trains, planes, mountains, Virginia, Philly, Arizona… the ups and downs, highs and lows, so many changes, but you were always the one constant. Without fail, you pulled me out of the shadows of my darkest times, showing me a light that I didn’t believe existed. You were my soul dog and I know to my core that it was always supposed to be us. Thank you for the best 4 years of my life. You’re not in pain anymore and I know you’re somewhere way better than here eating all the broccoli you can get your paws on, hiding in the bath tub and chasing flies. 🫶🏼 Say hi to everyone up there for me. Momma loves you forever Dais. “I can’t wait to see you again, it’s only a matter of time” 🌈🪽
