my past dogs and cats

one of my passions is my pets, i will speak about each group.
first my dogs i have had dogs for the last 25 years, you see when i was 18 i got in with the wrong crowd and found my self smoking crack. i was on it about a year and a half soon after turning 20 i had a friend take me to a nearby town where another friend lived and i stayed with her for a while to get myself cleaned up. i had lost everything. now i look back on it i was self medicating. things got better so i moved back here and lost all contact with the people i was hanging out with. i decided i need something to help keep me responsible, so i got snoball and little white pekingese, a girl i worked with had her and she had sent her to the pound and i went and got her. a few weeks later i met richard and we moved in together. a few weeks later he ran across an ad for pekingese puppies and he went to see them and he got a little black one naming her rainer. those 2 dogs became everything to us. we had snoball for 14 years her kidneys started to fail and we notice changes in her she had began sleeping alot and eating lessher last day with us she didnt eat at all and was in her little bed and had had an accident on her self we knew it was time. rainer lived to be 16 she had just became weaker and weaker and again we chose not to let her suffer.
during the time we had ranier and snoball we had gotten a chow puppy i had wanted one for years being i had grown up with them. we named her kako but called her k, and thats what she answered to, but if i called her kako she knew she was in trouble and would sulk. k was a wonderful dog at night she patrolled the house, every few hours she would walk through the house, she never slept on the bed she slept beside it on the floor, but from time to time she would jump on the bed to play, in the morning when she wanted to go out to potty she would wake me up by sticking her nose to mine and whining, k loved everyone she met she was very friendly and very motherly with the other animals. k was about to turn 16 and she had became sick and we took her to the vet to find she had stomach cancer, the tests showed the tumor was filling her stomach and she had quit eating, the only option was to end her suffering. richard was in texas and me and john took her in, we were with her during the procedure as we were with snoball and rainer.i took 3 days off from work.
when snoball passed a friend gave us a male pekingese i named him bennie, she had told us he was 4 when i took him to the vet they said he was 8, i had him for four years and he became sick and i took him to the vet, he had lost an eye years prior, the eye socked had became infected and it had spread through his body at that time the vet aged him at 12, he was a great friend he liked to play ball, and was a lap dog when ever i sat down he was in my lap. when i went to bed at night he slept on my back.
now about my siamese cat chloe, i told richard i wanted a siamese cat, one day we went to an animal shelter and i saw a beautful torti point siamese i will never for get that day as she was in the cage pacing and growling, i said i want that one, richard said are you sure she looks mean. we paid the adoption fee and the lady went to the kennel to get her out and ready for transport when she jumped and ran. the lady said she doesnt like to be cornered and she will bite, because i went to pick her up. she ran to get a towel to throw over her while she was getting the towel i reached down and picked her up, the lady returned and was in schock saying you could have gotten bit, i said well she is my cat now. chloe was with us for 17 years. she used to sit by the lamps to warm by the heat of the buld, richard used to say she was keeping the evil fresh. you see at night if you walked through the house and woke her up she would pounce on your ankles, she would take times at 2 and 3 oclock in the morning to run through the house. when it came time to end her suffering me richard and john went to the vets office together with her, we heard her in the back growling and carrying on, after we got home richard said "well she came in growling and went out growling"
toto my manx cat i have is the last of the original group, she is 17 will be 18 in august she was tightly bonded with k, i have pictures of toto sleeping on k's back.toto doesnt like anyone but me, if some one comes over she runs and hides and wont come out till they leave, toto has never been out side, except in a kennel to the vets. the day we had to put k down we left with her and when we came back with out her toto went crazy, for three months she wouldnt come out except to eat, she hid under the bed. a few months later i had to put her in a cat cage it is four ft high by 3 ft wide by 3 ft deep, alot of people ask me why well since k's passing she hid all the time she would find places to hide, she got in the wall with the hot water heater and it took 2 days to get her out. then she managed to get in the cabinet in the bath room and i was ok with that, then she went missing and for 2 weeks i couldnt find her then one day i was thinking she might be under the tub, so i pulled the sheild away from the tub and stuck my camera down in the and snapped four photos, one was of her in the corner, once i got her to come out i fixed the cabinet where she couldnt get back in. time had passed and she went missing and me and john thought she had gotten out of the door so we were outside looking for her. the next day i was in the bedroom and heard her meow so i looked under the bed she wasnt there, i kept searching and found her in the breaker box in the wires. so she is in the cage for her safety. as she is getting up in age she eats less and less i have taken her to the vet twice because of it and both times they found nothing to be wrong with her and she loves her daily attention. when her time comes i will be doing it alone this will be my first time.