Devastation

Trigger: January 7, 2002 - July 17, 2010

I think most people know, but we returned from our vacation in Colorado knowing that Trigger was missing. He had somehow escaped from our back gate last Wednesday...we still aren't sure how it happened. I was a dummy and had forgotten to put his collar on him before we left. :-(


Elijah was determined to find him. We got back late on Friday night and as soon as the shelters opened at noon the next day, Jason and Elijah went to 3 different shelters with no luck. We posted on facebook, emailed our neighborhood association president who sent it out to the neighborhood and put up fliers on telephone poles.


Our neighbor called on Sunday evening saying that he had seen our posters and had had Trigger for a couple of days but had taken him to the humane society on Friday. Ironically, Trigger had returned to our old house a few blocks away, gone in through his old doggy door and was standing in the man's living room when he got home...lol. That just makes me smile...he was trying to find us. Smart dog.


Me and the boys went to the shelter as soon as it opened on Monday. We searched every cage but couldn't find him. They finally linked his picture and the man's information to a euthanasia report. We were devastated. They claimed he was brought in with severe injuries, couldn't walk and was crying in pain so they put him down on Saturday morning - a mere hours before Jason and Elijah had arrived. Sigh.


I talked with the man who brought him and he said that was not true, there was no way he was injured enough to be put down. He said he had a small injury on his neck and that was it. We reviewed video of Trigger being brought in, talked thoroughly with the staff there and still aren't sure what to believe. He did not appear to be in pain when he was brought in and we feel he was done an injustice. He was not even there 24 hours before they put him down. He had seizures every few months and we feel maybe that had something to do with it but I guess we'll never know.



We miss him and always will. We got Trigger (half beagle/half dachsund) at a flea market in Weatherford for $75 just 3 months after we got married. All his brothers and sisters were $50 but the owner said Trigger was his favorite so they "upped his price" :-) His birthday was two days after our wedding. He has been through everything with us...all our homes, moves, our children, everything. My boys loved him and he was so sweet to them. Elijah still tears up almost every time he talks about him...that makes me hurt inside.

This is the note Elijah posted on our door the day after we got home from Colorado.
"Ware is are dog His name is trigre". So sweet...he wanted to find him so bad.


WE LOVE YOU TRIGGER!!!

*Working on a Colorado post, but if anyone can't wait, my mother-in-law put together a slide show with video at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DAHkeJCTP8s *