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December 31st, 2017

12/31/2017

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Update on Gussy, who I posted about below:  

​11/27/2017
​Gus’s family said goodbye to him last night.  


The family had asked me at the last minute to care for him over Thanksgiving but I couldn’t because not only was I booked up but Gus had diabetes and sometimes wouldn’t eat which meant our visits required double—and sometimes even triple— the amount of time I had to give.   Naturally, I never told his human how difficult it was to sit for him and always found a way to make it happen regardless; but not this time. I just didn’t have the wiggle room.   There’s part of me that wishes I could have said yes just because I would have wanted him to see his end with the same sitter who--unfortunate timing as it was--dragged him around to vets during Christmas holiday 2015 to get him diagnosed with his diabetes in the first place but when she sent me this text last night when I was buying Christmas items at Target at 9 PM, I thought: you’ve already made a difference; you’ve done what you needed to do, and now you even have this text to prove it.

Love you, Gus.   (AKA:  Gussy, GussyGoo, Gustard, and Chitosan Man, since he always had to have a chitosan pill before eating and getting his shot).  Run and be happy, Gus, and thank you for making us better people for having known you.
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    Whether you rescue or not is a personal choice, but for most of my human patrons, there can be no doubt that--however their pets entered their life--they provide their "person" with a deep sense of well-being and contentedness and, as such, I consider my job that of nurturing the nurturer.  Because in one sense of another, they're actually ALL therapy animals, tending us--and helping heal us through stepping outside ourselves so as to nurture them--during all emotional and physical life states.       
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