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Igor the Black Alsatian
Mutthouse's thread (your first love) got me all nostalgic, looking through old pics of Igor our black alsatian, so I thought I would share some fond memories with you guys...
My parents bought Iggy when I was about 18mths old, so we grew up together and he was like my big brother! He used to try & chew my feet when I crawled around, and Mum and Dad still love to remind me that I used to say "yeave my yegs ayone!" all the time!
I don't have any brothers or sisters so we were especially close - I would play board games with him; throwing for me then for him alternately!
[img-big]http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c12/KATIEB_23/igor/b.jpg[/img-big]
He was about 9 stone, and would easily jump up and put his front paws on my Dad's shoulders (who's 6ft) when he got home from work! I used to try & get him to jump up at me, but he was always so gentle & protective with me & knew I was too little to be jumped up at. He was so well behaved that I could take him out for walks on my own when I was young -about the same age as in the pics.
[img-big]http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c12/KATIEB_23/igor/e.jpg[/img-big]
[img-big]http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c12/KATIEB_23/igor/f.jpg[/img-big]
[img-big]http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c12/KATIEB_23/igor/c.jpg[/img-big]
[img-big]http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c12/KATIEB_23/igor/d.jpg[/img-big]
This pic is funny - I must point out that Iggy's face is
infront of my Mum's - although it looks quite bizarre from the angle it's taken!
[img-big]http://i24.photobucket.com/albums/c12/KATIEB_23/igor/a.jpg[/img-big]
Iggy's back legs went when he was only 8yrs old, and it spread to his bladder & bowels. It's weird how I've never quite got over his passing. I mean, it was 14yrs ago, and I still cry when I think about it! It's not as if I'm a particularly 'sensitive' type either - It's just that's my weak spot. I watched "Million Dollar Baby" last night, and there was a line in it about this girl's childhood alsatian & how it used to drag itself around by its front legs until her Dad took it away & ended it's pain - had me crying my eyes out. I'm fighting back tears now! It just really upsets me that something like that is so common in these amazing, noble dogs. It's just so unfair on them; and their owners who have to make the gut-wrenching decision about when to send them on to Rainbow Bridge.
Okay I'm starting to
lose the fight against the tears now, and I'm still at work, so I'd better stop thinking about sad things!
I thought the 'gone but not forgotten' section was particularly appropriate for this thread; because even though Iggy's been 'gone' for a long time, he will certainly never,
ever be forgotten by the people he loved xx