My First Baby

As the title states, I'm talking about my first baby today. My first baby is my dog, Jedi. Mister Studly and i got him about a month after we got married. We moved to Utah and picked him up from the dog breeders home on the way there from California. He literally was sitting in a box next to mister studly in the big moving truck. I drove behind him in the car and I couldn't wait to stop for gas so i could see him and smell his little puppy breath! He was so cute and little and clumsy. Boxers are known for their big paws and i just remember him always tripping over them as a puppy. In Utah, he liked to "pick" the unripened green tomatoes from my mother in laws garden. he would pick them up in his mouth and toss them into the air the chase after them and do it again and again. it was so cute. my mother i law didn't think it was too cute since it was her garden.

Jedi has been our buddy for so long now. We knew the time was coming where we would need to put him to sleep. boxers only live to be about 8 and he is 9. over the summer, he had a stroke and his health has been getting worse and worse. We were hoping to make it to thanksgiving so that we could take him back to Utah with us and have him put down there. Mister studly worked as a vet tech in Utah and we are friends with the doctor there. Jedi was pretty much raised in the vets office because mister studly would take him to work with him.

It looks like we're not going to be able to make it to thanksgiving. He has stopped drinking his water. We have made the decision to put him to sleep tomorrow. I am very sad, but i know it's the right time. i do not want him to suffer anymore than he already is. for the last week, we have been feeding him "people" food. this is something we have always been against, but as a treat to him we gave in. he has had eggs and beef and chicken and rice and pasta. i have been making the food in the crock pot for him. i looked up some recipes for dog food online to make sure i didn't give him anything that would be bad for him. he has loved it. but now that he is not drinking water, we know that he doesn't have much time left.

I'm sad because i will miss him. i am sad because he was our first
"baby" and i am sad because since i have had kids, i haven't give him the love and attention that he was used to getting from us. but i have been expecting this to happen sooner than later so i am going to try and keep myself together. I love this picture above. So cute.

Jedi was our travel companion at times. We took him camping with us. This picture above was taken in Mammoth. He pounced in the grass in this field. it was super funny. he looked like a dear in a meadow.

I love this picture. He's a circus dog!

Anyways, we are giving him a nice bath tonight and feeding him a nice juicy steak tomorrow (hopefully he will eat it and enjoy it) we're going to be giving him tons of exra love tonight and tomorrow. I'm going to be sad, but i know it's time.

I'm going to miss the big guy. he was our first baby.