IN LOVING MEMORY OF
A BEAUTIFUL GIRL CALLED: TACAREA
ON MARCH 18TH, TACAREA BECAME QUITE WEAK AND HAD TROUBLE STANDING. WITH SOME HELP WE CARRIED HER OUT FOUR TIMES EACH DAY SO THAT SHE COULD RELIEVE HERSELF AND RUB HER FACE AND NECK IN THE COOL GRASS. ON THE 19TH SHE SEEMED TO BE GETTING SOME OF HER STRENGTH BACK, AND THEN ON THE 21st SHE BECAME TOTALLY BLIND AND WAS CONFUSED AND FRIGHTENED. I SLEPT WITH HER ON HER COMFORTER THAT EVENING AND ON THE 22nd WE TOOK HER TO THE HOSPITAL AND SHE COLLAPSED JUST AS WE ENTERED THE TREATMENT ROOM IT WAS THEN THAT I LEARNED SHE HAD SUFFERED A STROKE ON THE 20th. THE VETS WERE QUITE WONDERFUL. THEY PETTED HER AND SPOKE VERY SOFTLY TO HER AND TACAREA BARKED, WHICH WAS HER WAY OF SAYING HELLO. AT 11:50 AM, SHE LIFTED HER HEAD TO LOOK AT ME, AND HER EYES SLOWLY CLOSED FOR THE LAST TIME. THE VETS THEN INJECTED HER WITH DRUGS THAT STOPPED HER HEART. SHE WAS PRONOUNCED DEAD AT 11:55 AM.
TACAREA WAS THE BRIGHT LIGHT IN MY LIFE, AND OH HOW I WILL MISS HER, BUT, SHE WILL NEVER BE FORGOTTEN EVEN AFTER I AM GONE. A BENCH WILL BE DONATED TO THE DOG PARK WHERE DOGS AND THEIR COMPANIONS CAN REST.
THE PLAQUE WILL READ.
IN LOVING MEMORY OF A BEAUTIFUL GIRL CALLED TACAREA
APRIL 3, 1991 - MARCH 22, 2008
This bench was donated by the Canadian Voice for Animals Foundation and
Jeffery Allen, Toronto, Judy Watson, Vancouver, Helga Zahler, Germany, Lisa Tabor, U.S.A., Brandon, a four-legged pal, Betty Lathouwers, Belgium, Luree Dell-Bryan, Shawnigan Lake, B.C., Judy and Ron Ruby, USA, Michelle Bafik-Vehslage, USA
(Those who donate to the cost of the bench will also have their names added to the plaque.)
TACAREA IN HER GLORY IN 2006
SHOWING OFF ON THE SOFA FEBRUARY 2008
TACAREA MARCH 15/2008
TACAREA MARCH 18/2008
MARCH 28, 2008
THE ABOVE MEMORIAL WAS PUT IN TODAY'S PAPER BY MY DEAR FRIEND IRIS.
THANK YOU IRIS
THIS STORY IS NOT COMPLETE UNTIL I THANK MY DEAR FRIEND ALEX WHO TOOK ME AND TACAREA TO THE HOSPITAL, AND TO CHRIS AND LAURA WHO SAW ME THROUGH SOME BAD DAYS.
FROM OUR DEAR FRIEND ANNEKE
