You were so special. You were so serious and so thoughtful unlike any puppy ever.
How protective you were of me at all times
How you hated fart sounds
When you used to take sick days with me
How you’d look up at me and blink in the rain
The way you’d look up from underneath your lashes
How your paws smelled like Fritos/Doritos
How you’d look back after someone sneezed just WAITING for an apology lollll
How you had no patience for the spider game
How you’d watch me put on makeup every time I sat to do it
How you understood full sentences and grandpa loved it
How you’d look at me when I’d say something new and pause for a moment to try to understand it and then you always would understand it
How I ordered the best puppy from the puppy store
“Can we go back this is the moment tonight is the night we’ll fight til it’s over so we put our paws up cuz our mommy can’t hold us so we put our paws up cuz our masi can also not hold us”
When we were on the trail and you didn’t let us go further cuz something spooked you
When you ran circles around me in New York to mark your territory to those weird men
How you’d position yourself between me and any doors or so that you could see all the doors in the room to protect me
Oatmeal, tofu, toast, carrots, peanut butter, pup cup, daal and rice, noods, popcorn, sweet potato
You were my wolf
How you hated raspberries and lettuce
How you’d politely taking something you didn’t want and then spit it out with your tongue
After grandma came to get us from New York and we stopped in the first hotel, when the lady wanted you to have popcorn but you only liked fresh popcorn
How motion sick you’d get when you were little
When daddy would take to long saying good night and you’d get annoyed
How you understood headshakes and daddy putting on his heat
Spastic dinosaur
Your snoring
Your two different ears
Always needing to have your butt touching me when you were sleeping as a puppy
The way you’d sleep on a pillow next to me like a human when you got a little older
The way you were so serious
How you used to love popcorn
The way you’d pout if we didn’t get to bed on your time schedule
Your three warnings you used to give when someone was touching you but not rubbing, lol!
Puppy races in your dreams
Your sneezes!! That face. I don’t have enough photo or video of the sneezes.
How you hated baths so much you’d shake when you got called outside
My little poopy little poopy little puppy her name is Holly and she smells like poop (or FLOWERS)
How you never let anyone touch your tail except me
Your gross farts and how they used to scare you
How you never let anyone put in eye drops or do any major trust activities but me
CPE = cold puppy ears
Your paws smelling like Fritos/Doritos
Plopping down upper body first like a nose dive to get comfs
Daddy’s favorite thing of you laying on your side and stretching with straight arms to snuggle more into your bed
Dragon Schm-Holly stories with Princess Schmanjali
How you didn’t let anyone give you eye drops except me
When you got so nervous after we went to visit Greg in Phoenix for the second time on our road trip and after that you were just completely over the car.
The quiet moments I would look at you sleeping on my bed and think how grateful I am and how amazing it is that I got to give such a special soul like you a beautiful life where you never had to worry about getting hurt and to me, you were a princess.
When you’d fart and either sniff it or get scared.
Your two different EARS!!! The best!!
The paw game
Your nose whistling and squeaking
When you met Greg in Phoenix at his OWN apartment and almost killed him when he came inside because you were protecting me
When that handyman guy was working in our rental house in Maitland and you thought I didn’t know and he just walked in and you were LITERALLY going to kill him
Your mohawk, which daddy loved so much
How, when you got so sick when you were 3 and we lived with Dave, at AVS they let me see you and I asked you to fight and dropped a tear on your snoot and you DID fight and we got nine more perfect years together
Floppy puppy
Pushed over Pooch
Kissing you on the forehead or on the cheek
Your lip smacking in the middle of the night
Running around in the snow upstate NY or on the roof in New York
When you use to chase bunnies and lizards and squirrels and would be so far out of control you didn’t hear your own name
DeerFoxWormEagle
Our road trip across the US
Princess Water
Monkey, little lady, lady bug, puppy girl, pooper girl
When you’d be lying down in bed, bending down to kiss you and getting to rest my arm on your tiny waist or puppy butt
Being inside your neck
How you would blink in the rain
Wearing your puppy boots and walking like a clown
Sitting in bed reading with a book on my knees and looking over to see you sleeping on your side
Sucking my thumb like a kid and playing with your ear
How you always knew I was awake even from across the house (how?!)
You getting offended and leaving the room when someone sneezes and then us saying “I’m sorry Holly”
You looking funny at acupuncture with all the needles stuck in, not even caring
You playing in snow
Face rubs
You chasing the rabbit in Binghamton and going crazy
Your puppy boots and clown walk
How obsessed you were with grandma and daddy
How you felt about raspberries
Broken puppy
Roadkill puppy
Reads for beds was Holly and mommy’s favorite time
“It’s Holly and Mommy!”
Puppy sick days
That time after a marathon that you knew I had a fever when we lived alone at the apartment in Altamonte and you were in my face when I woke up
“Thisversionofpooch” is in my top 47 versions of pooch
“Fix your ear!” 😂
“Even daddy knows X thing…” Daddy say: “It’s true!”
Puffed cheek, tucked lip
“You’re gross”
Sleepy paw rubs on your face and snoot
How daddy used to love how you smelled after baths – like a flower or cupcake
Ladybug
Puppy snot
The way you’d vibrate while waiting for daddy to come get you on your morning walk
The look you gave me right before you left, when you got the floppy medicine and you didn’t like it, and you were worried so you looked at me while you were feeling sleepy and I told you “it’s ok my good girl I’m here” and you just relaxed right away because of how much you trusted me
When you’d stand at the door of a room I was in, looking inside at me, and you’d twist into a little half donut shape
When you would wait for daddy after work with Sonny and I would tell him every day who was there first and who should get said hi to first.
Big turns in the car! You were so good at them!
When we were in Texas on our roadtrip and Finn, the wolfhound in San Antonio, used to come by in the morning to get you to play all day. And what an awesome outdoor pooch you were!
Deer fox worm eagle!
How you’d fly from couch to bed in NYC
How excited you’d be on walks, like ON TO THE NEXT
When we first moved to Florida and I was swimming laps in the pool at Allendale and I didn’t realize you were gonna get so freaked out because you thought something was wrong and you jumped to save me because that’s who you were. ❤️
Coffee and candles with Sonny staring in Texas and continuing to both houses in Orlando.
How you used to BIG FLOP into your big puppy bed.
How annoyed you’d get whenever I needed to strip the bed and clean the sheets because you didn’t like your routine being interrupted lol
Circles on your paw putting you straight to sleep!!
Daal chawal, vegetable soup, and other non-puppy food you loved!
When you were sick in the hospital that first day after your procedures when they really didn’t want to let me see you, but I was crying and so upset so they let me see you and you were in that little box and you were asleep and I looked down at you and I was crying and one single tear fell on your nose and you open your eyes and looked at me and I felt such a connection When I asked you to stay, like you didn’t really want to stay, but you were going to stay for me. And then we got nine long beautiful years together after that.
How you were so nervous when I first adopted you in New York, and you thought you couldn’t move from the spot you were sitting in and then little by little you came to trust me and became the bright energetic hilarious personality filled puppy you were.
How you hated someone putting a hand on you, if they weren’t rubbing. And you would give three warnings before you would get completely enraged and huff away.