by Natasha Montoya
When we first got val she was foreign to us along with her husband Rock. They were old when we got them but we grew more and more attatched to them over the weeks. Not even a month later we realized how much we loved them. I have never had a dog before and did not know how attatched you get to them. I loved them so much. I hugged them and petted them as much as I could and they knew we loved them. They knew and understood alot of what we said to them. Val was the personality of the two. She loved to sit at the patio window and bark at people who walked by on the path. When you said her name she would wag her tail a hundred miles a minute. Her tail was so cute all curled up. One day my mom took them for a walk and they walked by this one house, well it just so happened that a blak lab was out not on a leash so my mom tightened the leashes so they wouldn't go running off. The black lab came up to our two precious pugs and sniffed them and was about to walk off when suddenly she bit the left side of her face. The next thing my mom knew was that her eye was hanging out of its socket and that blood was gushing every where. She picked her up and tried to put it back in but it would not go. So she told a little boy who was out to go get his mother. The lady came out and called my dad and then the vet. My dad and I rushed over to take my mom and val to the vet. I couldn't handle it my baby, the dog I had grown to love so much over such a short period of time, was in pain! I was breathing hard like I was going to hyper ventalate. i was so scared to lose her. I knew I would just miss her too much.We got in the car and I had rock bacause he was scared and shaking and I stayed at my house in the dark hugging Rock and crying because I was so scared for val. How could this happen to us I pleaded. She was my love! Then my mom and dad came home later and they said she had to saty the night there. This happened on a monday night and she got to come home wednesday my mom stayed home with her all day. I had to go to school.That night I was awaken by my mom. She was crying so much and she said that vali had died. I immeadiately jumped up and hugged my mom and started crying uncontrollably. The sad thing is that right before she died she went and layed by Rock and then my mom saw she was breathing really hard and she picked her up and she just went limp. Gosh this is so hard for me to write. The next day I went in to test at school and then my dad picked me up when my testing was over. I came home and my dad and I built her a box to bury her in and I spray painted it white and made a stencil and put her name and her years. Then we made a headstone for her and we buried her. I guess because i hadn't seen her dead like the rest of my family it hadn't hit me until a week later and i realized she was gone forever and I just cried for a few hours straight. Well there is my pet story