Hi there! Welcome to Out of the Wilderness. I’m posting 15 tributes to my best beagle who passed away last week. She was lovable. She was sneaky. She was Piper.
At 15 years old, she had lived her best life whether it was getting a secret extra treat or wandering off the moment I turned my head for a millisecond. “Where’d Piper go?” is a question I asked a lot, usually followed up with, “Oh, good Lord, she’s gone again!” and a search party spreading out to track her down. She travelled by foot (paw?) a lot, going here, going there, going everywhere.
We travelled by car a lot, too, and that’s where things could get a little dicey. I’m talking about motion sickness! Going from Tennessee to Florida and back to Tennessee again, she and I had to figure out how to make it work and there were a few stories along the way. The blanket I had to toss into a dumpster somewhere in Alabama. Piper being so small she could crawl under the driver seat, or her having an upset stomach, tossing her breakfast, but eating it again before I could pull off the interstate. Eventually, though, we got into a good routine. Meaning… I mostly just fed her really early or not anytime close to when we were about to go on a long drive. But she had her ways of coping with it, too. If you ever rode with us, you probably noticed that she sat facing backwards. She literally faced the back seat. She was a smart little thing! One thing I learned is that fresh wind always seemed to help her not feel uneasy on the car rides so as often as I could, I’d roll the windows down and cruise. She loved to take in all the new scents.
I’m going to miss those whiskers and those big ears flopping in the wind. Gosh, I never would have thought “Cruise” by Florida Georgia Line would make me nostalgic but here I am listening to a song about a Chevy with a lift kit and thinking about the great times I had with my car-sick beagle. My Chevy did look a lot better with her up in it. Funny how the most random song can still connect back to Piper.
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