Have you a dog in Heaven Lord?

Is there room for one more?

Cause my little dog died today and will be waiting at your door...

In Memory:

Angel

Booth

Brewster

Chase

CoCo C.

CoCo M.

Emma

Foster

Gerard

Haley

Jordan

Little Man

Lovey

Luna

Miss Murphy Brown

Missy

Princess

Princess Lacey

Pumpkin

Reggie

Rinpoche

Sage

Sascia

Soda

Spike

Squirt

Stripe

Tika

Token

Udo

Wilma

If you know of the loss of a Red Hydrant client and would like their name listed on this memorial page, please send an email to martin@theredhydrant.com.

Please read the following dear sweet story about the loss of a family member...a young girls dog.

Our 14 year old dog, Abbey, died last month. The day after she died, my 4 year old daughter Meredith was crying and talking about how much she missed Abbey. She asked if we could write a letter to God so that when Abbey got
to heaven, God would recognize her.

She dictated and I wrote:

               Dear God,

               Will you please take special care of our dog, Abbey? She died yesterday and is in heaven. We miss her 

               very much. We are happy that you let us have her as our dog even though she got sick. I hope that you will

               play with her.  She liked to play with balls and swim before she got sick.  I am sending some pictures of her

               so that when you see her in heaven you will know she is our special dog.

               But I really do miss her.

               Love, Meredith Claire

                         P.S. Mommy wrote the words after I told them to her.

We put that in an envelope with two pictures of Abbey, and addressed it to God in Heaven. We put our return address on it. Then Meredith stuck some stamps on the front (because, as she said, it may take lots of stamps to get a letter all the way to heaven) and that afternoon I let her drop it into the letter box at the post office.

For a few days, she would ask if God had gotten the letter yet. I told her that I thought He had.

Yesterday there was a package wrapped in gold paper on our front porch.  Curious, I went to look at it. It had a gold star card on the front and said "To Meredith" in an unfamiliar hand. Meredith took it in and opened it.  Inside was a book by Mr. Rogers, "When a Pet Dies". Taped to the inside front cover was the letter we had written to God, in its opened envelope (which was marked Return to Sender: Insufficient address). On the opposite page, one of the pictures of Abbey was taped under the words "For Meredith" We turned to the back cover, and there was the other picture of Abbey, and this handwritten note on pink paper:

               Dear Meredith,