Skip Wallace

Skip, 3/20/2009

Skip (aka Skippers) came into our family in September of 2004. He was 9 months old. He was smart, sweet, always good with the boys.

Skip and Adam would always lay down together. Adam would pet Skip and Skip would just curl up next to him. I think if we allowed Skip on the beds, that he would have slept with Adam every night.

Skip loved to count (by barking the number of fingers). He loved to run and play fetch and run after cats.

Skip passed away on March 23rd 2009 at 5:10pm. He had been paralysed from the middle of his back, unable to move his back legs, unable to control his bowels. He was in pain, panting and shivering in his bed. We went to the animal shelter as a family and explained to the boys what was going on. David talked to the vet and they came out and took Skip inside on a stretcher. I was able to keep it together in the car, but when we got home, the boys went upstairs and I stay downstairs and cried. We got the call at 5:10 that he had passed away quietly.