To My Best Friend Tuggin

An imagined letter upon the loss of our last dog to his best friend. They loved to visit each other and play.

 

 

 

To My Best Friend Tuggin from Scooter.

                       

Dear Tuggin,

Thank you for being my best friend

through  my nine short years on earth.

Thank you for remembering me still.

You were always, and will be, my best friend.                    

Remember those times we played together,

the day I visited you, the Champion, play fly-ball?

(I’m sorry --you saw me, I upset your score).

 

This Rainbow Bridge place has green grass and trees,

Tiger, Nappy, Jolli, Rags, Archie

all play with me.  The food is great --

but I miss you.

 

Thank you for the best gifts of fun toys:

the  bubble-maker that sent iridescent bubbles

floating to the sky when we were puppies;

the Snake, a Squirrel, stone-soap for my mom,

 

Strawberry Bear, and more,

are still at my house. (I ate the treats.)

I see that my new sister Cheyenne loves those toys

so I hope you don’t mind that she plays with them.

 

The small silver angel is something of yours,

 precious to us all.   Mom put it in a velvet bag

on top of my cedar box.  She takes it out

to hold �" I see tears run down her face.

 

One day I hope you’ll meet Cheyenne,

a firecracker sister, red-hair, quite small.

I grew “too big”, the breeder said, but was

just the right size to play with you.

 

I was glad of that, and lucky too.

My mom and dad didn’t care how big,

they just cared that I was happy.

 

Thank you for visiting to play that last day;

I had so much fun!

I’m sorry I had to leave so soon,

but will think of you as time goes by.

 

Maybe we’ll play together again

on a day that’s still far, far away.

I won’t forget you, dear friend.

        With love forever,  from Scooter

 

via Eleanor little, Scooter’s mom, 2-26-2012

Author's Note

I hope those who have had dogs as companions will relate to Scooter's "letter" to his best friend.

Reviews

[Mark]

This is an interesting point of view, PL. I have transcribed songs written by my Gizmo to the tunes of his favorite bands, Petula Clarke and the Jefferson Airplane, as well as the Titanic story from the point of view of the iceberg! But one puppy writing to another puppy about his mistress rather took me by surprise. I enjoyed it very much!