Charna

~*~ CHARNA MARIE CHALUPCZYNSKI ~*~

I received some sad news yesterday. Charna, my first baby puppy, had to be put to sleep. She had been sick for several years and she just seemed to get a little bit worse everyday. She used to get ear infections all the time and had become deaf from the repeated use of medicine to stop the infections. She had numerous lumps, bumps, and tumors that had developed over the last couple of years. Well, from what I understand, she started having nose bleeds recently. According to the doctor this was due to tumors that she developed either in her nose or in her brain.

Poor Charna.

She put up the good fight, but it was time to let her suffering stop.

She loved her Aunt Maura and always showed her affection anytime I came to visit. Even after I moved away, and my visits with her became less and less, Charna still remembered me when I'd come to visit. We would share an "Aunt Maura cookie" which was a cookie that I would give her just because.

Her tail would wag like crazy when I was around. She wanted to be near me so I could pet her and love her. And I did. Even though she was older now, she'd still act like a puppy whenever I saw her.

For Christmas I would get her a big rawhide chewy and she would hoard that thing and growl at anyone who tried to take it. She loved her rawhides.

I will miss you, Charna. I hope you have lots of rawhide chewies in heaven.

I love you