It’s impossible to believe that we lost our sunny, precious, Whozit Louise, a year ago.
I found her on a bright Memorial Day, 1991, dashing through traffic with horns honking and brakes screeching to herald her arrival. The filthy, flea-invested little orphan came right to me and adopted me on the spot.
Adopting people and pets and adding them to her fan club was something that came easily to her. The world loved Whozit & it was her oyster.. She was truly a special little gift to everyone she met.
She always ran everywhere she went & my mother declared Whozit had “springs in her ---“ because she could jump like an Olympian.
Then seven years ago, a van ran a red light, hitting my car and tossing Whozie into the passenger’s door, nearly severing her spinal cord in two places and paralyzing her. Later, that day, after hours of surgery, she was sporting seven nuts and bolts down her spine and was the star patient at the emergency vet. She wasn’t supposed to survive, but she did. I was able to bring her home two days later. I thanked God every single day after that, that she chose to stay with me for a little while longer.
That summer she got her first set of wheels and Whozit was off and running. She wore the first set out and was wearing the second set out, chasing ducks, poodles and bugs, when she was diagnosed with heart failure on October 1, 2003. Her slide was fast.
So, on another sunny day, October 9, 2003, my father (I’d never seen him cry before) and I took “my little girl” to dear Dr. Bock’s for the last time. I held her close to my heart until I knew she just had to be running full-tilt to the Rainbow Bridge, my mother and to her yellow cat, best friend & care-giver, Mr. Baby. (Baby always groomed Whozie’s hind legs after the accident)
There hasn’t been a day in the past year that I haven’t thought of my “little monster” and missed my bossy wee soul-mate. She always made me smile with my heart, just like that old song says. I was so very blessed to have her in my life.
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