Copper

"Life goes on" or so they say! I try to live by those words. However, there are some days that I want to say "Yea, right!" One of those days was this past Friday. I wish I could have frozen Friday morning and skipped right to Saturday, better yet, skipped Friday all together! Our dog Copper passed away Friday afternoon. He was only a year old and we were just 3 short weeks of a year of having him in our family. I keep telling myself that he is just a dog. But for those of you who are dog owners, you know that I am trying to talk myself out of the hurt and great sense of loss that I feel right now. We was a Wright through and through! He is and will be missed a lot!

So now for what happened. Copper went to the groomers Friday morning. Boy did he need a bath and a cut! Around 1:30, we got a call that Copper was at the vet and that someone needed to come right away. Cory went. Copper was already gone when Cory arrived. After Copper had been washed and dried, he started acting quiet and weird. The groomer said he had been good and happy up to that point. She thought he was getting scared, so she picked up and hugged up to try to comfort him. That is when he went limp. Another groomer grabbed him and ran him to the vet just around the corner. The doctor gave him some medicine and tried to get his heart going, but he was already gone. The doctor seems to think that Copper had a genetic problem that caused him to die so quickly, probably a brain aneurysm. Cory said he looked like he just sleeping when he saw Copper. Just that his tongue was sticking out. We decided not to bring Copper home and bury him in the back yard. We wanted the kids to remember their first dog in a good way - happy, playful and full of life! Copper will be cremated. We will not get the ashes, but the vet will send us a frame with a picture of Copper and a bronze copy of one of his paws.

Life does go on, and we will get through this! We just need to remember all the goods times with Copper - like when we left him behind when we went riding and when we went back to get him, he was sitting right were the truck was parked, or how Copper would bark at his reflection in our fireplace and attack the vacuum every time I turned it on. He was so much fun!! We love you, Copper!