In loving Memory of Bruno !!!

Its been a very sad week Our sweet old boy Bruno passed away last week August 27th after being crippled by a pinched nerve we did all we could do to try and get him to walk again but it didn't work ..

You know I didn't think I would be this sad when he passed He was old I knew that... I just thought we would get a few more years out of the the old guy it was so quick took me by surprise... I am just glad we were home and were able to take care of him and give him lots of extra love and tender loving care in his last days ..I always wonder when I look at pictures of people in my family like great great grandparents and see a dog or cat wondering around in the background what was their pet like, was it just a pet or a real part of the family, you know ...so this is a post all about Bruno and his life through my eyes ...

Bruno came home with us in about June/July 1997 as a little pup, Andrew is who picked his name and he was going to be Andrews dog .. he turned out to be all of the neighborhoods dog though everyone loved Bruno he loved greeting all the kids on their way to and from school... All the neighbors just loved him... he would always lay out by our road, its a dirt one and alot of the neighbors stopped to give him a dog treat and Bruno just loved that... whenever we come home from town he was always waiting at the top of the driveway with a smile on his face just knowing we were home made him happy plus the usual bonus of maybe a doggie bag or some left over french fries and unfinished ice cream cone but even without a treat he was always happy to see us ...
The only time I ever seen him sad was when Shady died he would lay out in the field keening for her we felt so bad for him he really really missed her..I am sure they have met up now though....
After I lost the babies he was there for me every night, after Randy went back to work... In my most darkest lonely times I leaned on him so much, he didn't care if I cried for hours every evening, he never looked away or wanted to escape from the sadness... he would just sit with me and look at me with his pretty brown eyes...I will forever be grateful to my Bruno for his understanding...
A Bruno story...
One night we woke to the most awful sound you can imagine at about 2am barking, growling, screeching,yelping, splashing...omg.... it was Bruno fighting a huge raccoon out in the pond... we screamed and yelled for him to quit, he ignored us... Randy got the shotgun and shot it off into the air, he ignored that to, usually he hated the sound of gun shots or fireworks ... Randy had to get in the pond and try to get Bruno out with out getting in the way of the raccoon it was so awful man I can't even remember how we got it to stop... I know the raccoon died and Bruno lost a toenail ...That is the only time I have ever seen Bruno like that, he really didn't like raccoons...
In the past year or two I really learned how special Bruno was he had never really been around little babies or toddlers to much but the gentleness he showed Rylan really really gave me and extra appreciation for him and how loving of a dog he was sometimes Rylan would not be watching where he was walking and would stumble on top of Bruno and Bruno would just look up at him and then at me like "awe did you see him trip over me, he loves me" LOL That was Bruno and Rylan would say the same about Bruno :-) they really loved each other its almost as though they thought along the same lines ...
I really miss that big stinky dog and every time I ever smell a skunk I will always feel like its Bruno stopping by to say "hi" he was always getting sprayed by skunks ....He was a horrible watchdog, the kind that would invite to takwe what ever you wanted for a little pat on the head...He never even once in his life barked at the UPS man, how's that for gental giant ..ohh he will be missed the yard is so quiet..it just don't have the same happy glow now I didn't realize how ofter I would open a door or just go outside for a while just to say his =name or any of the hunderds of variations of his name ..he was deaf for most of this past summer so we would really have to jump around to get his attention and maybe he didn't hear much but I still liked hearing all his name roll off my tongue..I miss you Bruno onooo spoono, goono, prunno,Big guy, stink guy ...tunooo...fat butt..the list goes on and on .....