Your Pet Tributes

by Jen
(Ohio)

Mikey,

You were more than a horse to me. You were truly my best friend. You were truly my everything. You could always pick me up when I had a bad day. Caring for you and competing with you in our many many weekend horse shows is what I was good at. We were such an amazing team.

I remember the day that you became very very ill. Mom and the Vets thought that your time was getting short. I believed that you would come out of it and get better. I believed that you were a fighter and will over come this just as you did your lameness problems.

I will never forget that terrible October day that I lost you. I remember everything down to the temperature and the gloominess of the sky. I remember coming home from school and seeing Mom standing in the kitchen with her back toward me and when she turned around I saw the tears falling down her cheeks and she shook her head and said "Mikey didn't make and I'm so sorry".

I couldn't believe that my best friend was truly gone. That you weren't in your spacious 16 X 80 stall like you always were waiting for me every day. I knew that I could never rub your muzzle again like I did everyday. And that my dream of showing you at the 2000 All American Quarter Horse Congress had been shattered.

I cannot believe that it will be 10 years this October 9th that I lost you. I want you to know that I still love you so very much and that I miss you terribly everyday. And I know that you are waiting for me patiently at the Rainbow Bridge so that we can enter Heaven together, and never be parted again. And spend eternity happily with my very best friend.