We lost our beautiful boy Sunny Sunshine to cancer today, January 3rd 2015, very unexpectedly.
He was only 5 years old.
We went to Florida in November and Sunny stayed with our good friends. I spoke with Sunny every day to let him know that we were only away for a short while and would be back to collect him. He didn’t believe me and his heart broke, he was so sad.
When we got back he didn’t seem his normal self. We were thinking of going to live in Florida and had this awful feeling that Sunny wouldn’t be going with us. The vet insisted there was nothing wrong despite us taking him several times. This morning he couldn’t stand. He was bleeding internally due to a massive tumour on his spleen. He was passing over before our eyes at the vet and we had to let him go.
We brought Sunny’s body home and within an hour he began to speak to me.
I’d like to share his words with you.
“I came until I was 5 for a reason. You couldn’t take me with you, I wouldn’t have borne the journey. I nearly died when you left. The weakness in me grew in those 2 weeks. I didn’t trust and I should have that you would never leave me. I love you all. My daddy, I’m his boy still and I’ll be back. Another Berner boy in Canada. Later – much later.
I’ve had love and trust and a wonderful life. Love me forever and I’ll love you forever. Daddy, I know you’ll grieve, I can’t stop it, but when you come back from that, love again, and love mummy and the others. They all need you more than you know.
I feel free and can fly now – isn’t that great?! I know you can’t enjoy thinking of that now but you will and one day we’ll fly together. I love you all so much. My heart was made to love”
