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me, daring me to fill this
blank page with witticisms
and profound medical reve-
lations. But today I have
nothing. I don’t feel witty. I
don’t even feel like a doctor.
I feel like a 13-year old boy.
Last night, our wonderful
chocolate lab, Tanna, was

struck by a car and killed. | .

This morning my eyes are

puffy and the screen goes ~

blurry every so often. No
matter how many times I
try to tell myself “it’s just
an. animal now, David,
heck you. eat hamburgers,”
I still share the intense pain
of my own 13-year-old son.
More than.a pet.to him,
Tanna was his sister, a true
friend every day, a refuge
from the worries and expec-
tations of being a freshly
minted teenager.

In the past.12 hours I
have joined him in experi-
encing. most. of Elizabeth
Kubler Ross’ stages of deal-
ing with unexpected death:

Shock and denial, anger,
bargaining, depression and
‘acceptance.

The shock of the news

_struck us like a sudden un-
expected kick to the knees.

Rendered: limp as a rag, we
collapsed onto: the couch.

He dove straight into denial.

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“Dad, can't you go and
get her and revive her?” my
son begged . through ‘his
sobs. “Please, it can't be
true.”

I, too, was hoping that the
alarm would go off now and
wake me. I would call for
her right away. She was a
sweet girl with a cheerful
disposition.

--Playfully.; she greeted
each of us every morning,
craving and imparting af-
fection. Creeping up to each
bed in the morning,.a cold
nuzzle would explore under
the sheet as the happy slap-

-Slap-slap' of: her tail beat
against the bed. Then she’
- would be off to other beds,

starting .off. her. day. and

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or any Co-op Gas Centre and pick up an
application form. Anyone can become a member of
Peninsula Co-op for an investment of $25 in shares plus a $2
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She taught us the mean-
ing of unconditional love
and helped us develop com-
passion. Her life brought us
joy and now: sorrow, in
essence affirming the expe-
rience and purpose of life it-
self,

“I hate. cars and I hate
this road,” heralded’ my

son’s anger phase towards

this irreversible act.. We

must have skipped Kubler
Ross’s_ bargaining. stage
but ifthe depression stage
involves tears, then we are
soaked in depression.

As this is.a health col-
umn I suppose | should ex-
plain how pets lower stress,
lift the spirits of the down-
hearted and improve the
physical and . emotional
health of those whose lives
they enrich.

Many kind and caring pet
owners share their dogs,
cats:and. even rabbits, with
the less fortunate residents
of hospitals, nursing homes
and rehab centres: Pet ther-

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into the lives of the institu-
tionalized..

Cats. curl up in wheel- :

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Wednesday, February 20, 2002

marches down a hospital
corridor. Hands weakened
by disease and pain reach
out to caress the soft manes
of patient dogs. They seek
to soothe and be soothed.

These kind-hearted pet
therapy groups can relate
story after story. of unre-
sponsive children who for
the first time in weeks make
an effort to reach out to pet
a dog. It appears to me that
dogs seem to know how to
care, console and dare I say,
even cure.

Many of the elderly who
enter nursing homes have
had to leave behind com-
panion pets. Their distress
and depression is alleviated,
for ashort while, when they
are once again allowed to
stroke or talk to a kind, re-
ceptive dog.

But this morning my sor-
row is not only for the loss
of a constant, happy, loving
presence in my life, but also
for the grief J see and feel of
a young boy. I can only hope
that acceptance is just
around the corner. «

Last. night. my son,

shaken and: still shaking
with sorrow, finally rolled
: ‘over and through the sobs .
whispered into the pillow
“Goodbye, goodbye.”
Tanna, you were a a great
dog. . a

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