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When Mocha passed away in 2016, I was online looking for a dog that looked like her even though I knew that the hole in my heart would never be filled. 

When I found you tucked away at a rescue in Alberta you were so much smaller than she was, but something told me that you were the one.

We quickly knew that a big heart had nothing to do with your actual size. You moved into our hearts almost as soon as we got you home. They say that we gave you a forever home, but it is you that made it a home for us again. You were such a precious little boy. You took our broken hearts and with such gentleness started to mend them. 

Even though you’d been through a lot before we found you, you took a chance on us and let yourself be the loving and quirky little boy who just needed the right home to let your true self shine.  We went on trips together and even though we could see this was not something you knew you always made the best of it and quickly came to love it. We could see that the beach was your favorite. Frolicking and digging up the sand was so natural for you that these trips quickly became our favorite too.

When your little heart got broken last year, you took every minute of every day and showed us that true joy in life is possible even when the impossible looms in all too near future. You showed us that even being as sick as you were, living every day for that day was not only possible but so very, very precious. 

When Mocha died, I knew that the pain I felt could never be worse. I was so very, very wrong…………………….. 

We mis you so very much precious 

I’m sorry that we won’t get to see each other again. 

I was so afraid of my new mommy and daddy, and I just couldn’t be disappointed again but when I met you that day on the way to my new forever home you told me that my new mommy and daddy were special and that they would just love me to pieces.  

Your mommy was getting presents and you got some for me too. I’ve never had presents before so I knew that I had to be in a very special place. I was still scared, but my new mommy and daddy just loved me so much that I started feeling safe just like you told me I would.

Callie, thank you for letting me inside your heart even when you didn’t know me. I was a total stranger and you made me feel like your bestest friend. We moved away and I didn’t get to see you again, but I never forgot that first day how you took me under your paws and made me feel so welcome.

I am with Mocha and Jose. We are sharing the bestest stories. We all three know about the best love. Since I told them about your kindness, they can’t wait to meet you too

I will always be missing you Callie,

Scout