Goodbye Bandit :(

 

We lost one of our beloved dogs the other day

He had been missing the whole day before,

and Mike and I suspected the worse

because we knew how he had been failing lately.

Thank goodness he wasn't sick,

but he had definitely been showing signs of age.

Unfortunately it was the kids who found him

Just laying down in the field beside the house....

they had kicked a soccer ball over there and saw him!

Mike said it didn't look like he was in pain,

because there was no pawing of the ground or

anything around him,

and like I said he hadn't been in pain,

so maybe it was a stroke or something else

He was almost 15 years old,

and he was a big old goof, lol!

He was so timid, and I used to call him an oaf, lol!

Though everyone who pulled into our driveway

wouldn't get out of the car because of his size

He came to us from my sisters in Toronto

about 11 years ago

so he's been a part of our family for a long time

Yes, even though he looked big and ferocious, he was just a big baby, lol!!

Here a few years ago, someone had seen him wandering around in the ditch not too far from here, and they picked him up and took him home!! We thought we had lost him then, and I used that picture above to make flyers and post them about town. I even put it on the radio.

Turns out someone saw it in the library and realized that their neighbour had Bandit! And he had been there for two weeks It was such a relief to know that he had been well looked after...the people said that if no one claimed him they were just going to keep him.

He will be missed and already is. Last nite we were outside and the kids heard a noise and Hannah said "Oh, that's probably just Bandit, he's always over there" or something to that effect. She had forgotten that he wasn't here anymore