glenmar
Posted : 8/19/2010 11:01:45 AM
Todd is not doing well. He was sitting up here chatting with her when she went into her "flapping frenzy" and it happened. Her "last words" were a sqawk of surprise I guess. Or pain, or shock, but a sqawk. I'm sure that there is a voice in his head telling him he should have stopped her flapping like I did. If talking her down didn't work, I'd physically stop her. But she'd do the same thing in the night when no one but DS was up here to hear her, and he sleeps like the dead. So it could have happened anytime. Instead, she was chatting with daddy just before it did and she was a happy duck.
It was hard to sit here, on the computer with her crate there, empty. So, I took it down, cleaned it out and stored it in the tent. Now the drivers seat looks naked and it hurts either way.
Corky had a good life. Very short, but good. She knew how loved she was. Bleh, bleh, bleh......and my mind knows all of this. But, dang it, my heart hasn't quite gotten it yet.