Tattoo is in Doggy Heaven.

Tattoo

Age 3, October 10, 2005 - November 20, 2008

Tatty was my sweet sweet baby girl.

Nickname: Tatty

Tatty was my baby in every sense. I rescued her from a very bad situation and I feel she knew it. When I got her, she weighed 1.5 lbs. Within a week of being fed three times a day, she was up to 2.5 lbs and that is where she stayed. She was so tiny that I had to save her from being eaten by a hawk! She was so tiny and sweet. She loved dressing up in the clothes I bought her. She would actually get excited when she saw me pull out her drawer. She got her name from my brother-in-law. He knew I had always wanted a tattoo and since she was a permanant fixture on my shoulder he said that I finally got my tattoo, she was Tattoo from then on. At first Tatty went to work with my everyday. Then when she was able to be away from me, I took her every other day. She always went on Fridays so my boss dubbed fridays as "Tatt Fridays".

One day we went to ork and she greeted my assistant with a happy dance and ran around in happy circles. But within one hour she was violently sick. No vet in town could see her until mid-afternoon so I cuddled her and waited. The vet said she would be okay, he thought it was her pancreas, gave her a shot, 4 different meds and sent us home. Since she had gotten sick all over my office I took her home, gave her the meds, put her to bed and ran back to my office to do a quick shampoo of the carpets. I was gone approx. an hour and when I returned home, she was gone. I was beside myself for not being there with her at the end. I couldn't work for several days I was so torn up. Then my boss called one day and said that he felt that maybe she was already sick when I got her due to the poor conditions she was made to indure and that God sent her to me to feel unconditional love before she died. This helped me so much.

It's been 8 months and I still cry for her. My husband , who was affected almost has hard as me, buried her under my favorite bird house in the back yard so that I could always spend time with her. We have a new baby Chipoo, Sophie that I sometimes think Tatty had something to do with. They are a lot alike in some ways. I actually had her portrait tattooed on my left shoulder where she liked to be. Now she will forever be where she loved to be.

Mama loves you Tatty Sue and you will always be with me in my heart and soul.