I think the reason I miss that little boy so much is because I took care of him… worried about him… for so long.  The last month of his life… we were in a routine.  I would feed  him six times a day in his feeding tube.   The times were… 6:00p; 8:00p; 10:00p; 2:00a; 4:00a; and 6:00a.   It was easier on the weekends because I could feed through the day. The weekend before he passed away – he came with me to Latrobe.  He was active… he was attentive to the surroundings.   I would feed him and then we would take a nap…  Lukas and Micah in their crates… me on the floor.

When I would feed him at home, we did it on the bed.  I would stand beside the bed and he would walk up and stop waiting for me to lift him up.  He wasn’t able to jump anymore on the bed – he was too weak.  He was too weak, too, to climb the stairs up to the bed.  Then he would turn and look at me… waiting for me to take his tube down.  He would just lay down and sleep… as I fed  him.

I emailed Dr. Spracklen to tell her I had left a message and hadn’t heard anything back.  She responded with “I was sorry to hear of Micah’s passing.  He was a gentle spirit.”  He was…

I made a canvas to remember him…  took some pictures and placed the order at Walgreens.  This is what it looked like…  it included baby pictures, agility pictures and pictures with Lukas.  If you take each row and count them as 1.2.3. – 4.5. – 6.7.8.  We have the following pictures…  1 (8 weeks); 2 (his first agility trial – April, 2017); 3 (at a Red Roof when he was a young dog – Lukas trialing); 4 and 5 was at Dexter in December, 2016.  Picture 6 (his first trial – April, 2017); 7 (Lukas 28th C-ATCH at the end of March) and 8 (his last trial in Dayton – first weekend in May, 2017).

A gentle spirit… “Mighty Micah”