My Pet's Tales

(c) Chrystal Mahan

RIP Cain  November 4, 2003  to Febuary 7, 2012 It was one year ago today I had to say goodbye to my beloved Cain . I remember the day like it was yesterday. I have yet to bury Cains ashes in the cemetery with  my grandparents. I'm just not ready to let go. I just want to keep him with me. So, I am going to spend some time today looking at pet urns and perhaps changing him from his tin box to a nice wooden one with some engraving.  I've also decided to buy a bamboo plant in his honor and plan to do that when he gets home tonight. I don't have to worry about the weather and I don't have to worry about it dying. It will live on forever, just like Cain's memory. 

We are coming up on the one year anniversary of Cain's passing. I wanted to do something, but I am not sure what. I thought about planting a tree. February in Michigan might not be the ideal time to do any planting. So I thought maybe an indoor plant would be nice. Maybe we could plant it outside when the weather became warmer. My only problem with that is we hope to move next year when we are both done with school (I should be done this year!). I want something I can take with me; something that won't have a high risk of dying.

Saying good-bye is never an easy thing, but it is something I was forced to do this morning. I knew this day would come and I even tried to mentally prepare myself. When Cain started to have his seizures we knew Boxers were prone to brain tumors and cancer. That was the reality I was faced with. Cancer can be an evil bitch as I have seen her take away so many people and furkids that were close to me. Cain's seizures started to get worse. Instead of head tremors they were turning in to full body, muscle spasm tremors. He was drinking more, eating less and peeing every 30 minutes.

mumma got new furniture the other day. we were not really sure what to think of it. casey my silly sister was the first to make herself comfy. it took me a couple of days, but it sure is cozy. i can get used to this.

(lil m covered stooooopid sister in her robe)

waiting by the front door for dad to come home. i was not feeling well and mumma was getting upset.

hello everyone in blog land. i hope you had a good christmas. casey and i got new toys and treats. it was fun. lil m was here on christmas day & she played with us. lil eli also came to visit. he is a tiny little person all he does is mumble & i do not understand what he trying to tell me. but thats ok. i just look at him & then cleaned his hands off for him. mumma & her cousin thought it would be funny to put eli on my back. i find this not to be funny. i not a horse. oh bother. thats mumma for you. i would rather kiss and sniff him. that funny. but he is a cutie and special little person so casey & i approve of his visits. my health not so good. i have been drinking lots of water so i have to pee a lot. mumma always getting up to take me out. seizures have been around. i think that why i am tired a lot these last few weeks. i know it makes mumma sad. makes me sad too.

i don't feel well today. i don't want to go outside. i don't even want my food. lay here on this kitchen rug all day. i don't know why. i never lay here. i think i am making mumma have sads

mumma thinks its funny. i just wanna be pet. she exercise & i should be the one exercising. this video is a few weeks old. mumma been real busy with school so we a little behind on our writing.

November 11, 2011 mumma thinks its funny. i just wanna be pet. she exercise & i should be the one exercising. this video is a few weeks old. mumma been real busy with school so we a little behind on our writing. For some reason the video does not want to work when I post here to blogger so here is the link to watch Cain Pedal

friday was my birthday. mumma did not have a party for me this year. i guess i am ok with that. not a huge fan of all those people being in my house. she did get me a present, but i had to share it with casey. stoopid casey. she always gets my stuff. i am 8 years old now.

my hip has been hurting more. mumma says this is why i am on a diet so my weight comes off my hips. whatever that means. alls   i know is moving hurts. yesterday i was all cozy and warm on the couch with casey. that thing rings loud. mumma started talking and laughing. it was time to get up. when mumma starts talking she comes out of her room and we get to eat and go potty. only it was dark. i could not see. so we had no more food coming.   i wanted to get up to see what mumma was being so funny about. i started to get off the couch and i slipped. fell right in to the glass table in front of the couch and knocked it all over. mumma came running out. casey stood there and watched her put it all back together, nothing broke. i went to hide in mummas bedroom. she kept talking. then we had to go on our potty break before bed. i could not move. i hurt. i could not get up off the carpet, mumma had to help me. then i could not go down the stairs to go outside. when mumma helped...

this a photo mumma took of me and casey when she was working. we like to sit with her when she works. i had a bad day friday. dad was getting ready for work. mumma was getting ready for her job too. i was just laying on the couch and i had a seizure. this was not fun for me. no sir. this one made my body shake. mumma told dad this was worse one ever. she said vet will have to change meds. i dont want this. i dont want more meds. dad says my brain is getting worse. all i knows is i spent all day sleeping. i did not want to eat or pee. i just wanted to sleep. i dont know why mumma kept laying beside me with her face dripping on me and making my fur wet. she just kept wanting me to eat and pee. she kept askin' me to tell her whats wrong. i dunno whats wrong with me. i just wanted to sleep. that body shake hurt my head. sleep is good. mumma makin' me wet is not. i dunno whats gonna happen now. i feel ok today.  i played a little to show mumma i felt better. our little person di...

Cover of Bono my mumma is such a nice lady. she dropped me and casey off at grandma’s friday. she went to my doctors to get more medicine and the doctor was happy to know i only had one seizure that mumma saw. so does that mean these funny white circles in my food are helping me? I hope so. she also told mumma she has to write down every time I has a seizure. if they get worse or i act funny she has to call right away. grandma’s is fun. she lives in the country. she takes us outside and we get to play with ty, a very old poodle that lives next door and there is a boxer who lives across the street. she comes over to play too, but shes just a toddler and so her mom and dad don’t let her out long. forgot her name. grandma also has lots of kitties. they are smaller than ziggy so grandma yells and me and casey when we try to play with them. when we are at grandmas we get to sleep on the couch. our houses stay at mummas. when mumma came to get us monday after we woke, i heard her tell g...

i went to vet today. i was not awake very long when mumma and dad loaded me and ziggy into that moving thing. mumma put ziggy in his travel house and he started to cry. i had to have dad help me in to the back, i too old to jump high anymore. casey had to stay home.

mumma says i gotta go back to the vet tomorrow. i heard her tell dad that the stoooopid cat thing has to come too. i guess he needs shots or something. hes not going to like that. those pills mumma gave me dont seem to be working. i still shake my head. dad wonders if i have Parkinson's. i dunno what that is, but i am not sure i really like the sounds of it. i been whining a lot. i wish i could tell mumma what was wrong so she would understand. i hopes the vet will fix me. i loves my mumma and i hates to see her so sad over me. we went to go see a home that was not ours. we saw a big dog across the yard.

HubPages decided to do a 30 day writing challenge;  I hopped on board and decided to follow the lead of a friend who had just finished the 30 days of truths. I was so amazed by all of the things she had gone through and accomplished in life. Having my own stories to tell I felt it was a perfect opportunity to share my world with readers that were not aware of my writing websites. I was moving along on the challenge just fine, until everything changed in an instant. My world was thrown into a whirlwind. A few weeks back my oldest Boxer Cain,  who turned 7 last November, was sitting on the loveseat. Cain did have his tailed docked as a pup, but the breeders must have misjudged the length. Cain had a growth spurt and his tail grew with him. Instead of a little nub, he has a stubby tail. It has become quite a part of his personality. Cain is an extremely happy dog.  When he wags that stub of his, the whole back half of his body shakes right along with it. Cain will...

Yesterday I made a post on my other website about Cain, and how things change in an instant. I reposted it here on this blog. I have had this site set up for Cain for some months now, only it was for a completely different reason. This is one of the projects I had that were waiting on me to graduate so that I had more time to spend on it. The YouTube channel is already set up. I purchased the domain this morning, so I will set that up later today. I just wanted to get this post updated and out of the way.

When I got up this morning I had planned to sit down and look at some of the ideas I had written down for new posts. I spent a little time relaxing this morning, watching some shows that were still on the DVR, flipping through the pages of  Poets & Writers  magazine, and enjoying my coffee. I happened to get up to start bringing my belongings into the office when I noticed Cain was shaking. If you have ever seen Cain, you know he is a pretty happy dog and it is pretty noticeable. His little nub of a tail wags and it causes his whole body to wiggle. This was not what he was doing.