Scooby the Alaskan Husky It’s with deep sorrow that we announce the passing of Scooby, Roger and family’s pet dog, due to inoperable illness, on July 14, 2005. The 9 years that he was with the family were one of the best times in their lives. Scooby the Alaskan Husky was an extraordinary canine (smarter and more human than many homo sapiens), and it can be truly said, in all honesty and candour, and with all due respect to the human being, that pets (dogs, cats, rabbits, birds, etc.) are in many ways, way much better than the so-called human being. If there is an afterlife, I know I’m not alone when I say: I’d rather meet my pets than meet some or many other people. I know the passing of a much loved pet is not easy. We experienced the same sadness when Puffy Caballero, the smart Siberian cat, and one of the world’s biggest felines at 35 lbs. passed away on June 12, 2004 at age 14. Years before that, it was the same experience with Juniper the Netherland Rabbit. Like Scooby, Puffy was cremated, after extensive medical tests, but Juniper was re-interred at our yard a few years after he passed away, and surprisingly, he was still in a non-decomposed state, which made us wonder: If thousands of years from now and a civilization after us discovers his body, then they’ll wonder. They'll surely say: Look, see how the civilization before us preserved their pets. Our pets are gone now, but memories of them will always be with us till the time when, like them before us, the end of life comes. |
