On November 24, 2014, Abu, welcome to our home. You were five years old when you came, in the best years of dog life, and you are grateful to be a member of our family. What a wonderful fate to make us a family, although it was only seven years. Seven years is too long, in the blink of an eye you are a hundred years old (the dog is twelve years old), seven years is too short, we have not met enough, but you are leaving...
Abu, do you remember who your last master was? You got lost somewhere, you waited for him in the same place, lingered for seven days and refused to leave, and then you were caught by someone else to guard the factory door, and the big and thick chains were put around your neck, thanks to Brother Li's notification to me, I was able to take you home, and since then you have a new family and a new name: Abu.
Abu, do you remember one day in 2016 when you sneaked out to play and ended up falling into an abandoned well? You didn't come home that night, Grandma went crazy and looked for you over and over again, and we all thought you had been stolen by a dog dealer and were heartbroken. Later, I learned that you were soaked in the cold sewage in the waste well for a day and a night, or your life was big, and the sewage just did not flood your mouth. You also stubbornly cried for a day and a night, many neighbors heard, what a fear and helpless experience of living like a year, fortunately the next afternoon a neighbor who planted vegetables heard your cry to report to the security guard, only to find your location, when you looked up in the well water and saw that Grandma was coming, crying excitedly, Aunt Chen Juan also called out to the uncles of the fire brigade, and finally I used the ladder built by the uncles of the fire brigade to go down the well to rescue you, do you remember? Dad will always guard you, do what you say (although according to the age of the dog, you are already a "centenarian", much older than Dad, but I will always take you home and give you the name of dad who accompanied you throughout your life).
Abu, do you remember your other friends? Little Flower, Little Tiger, Little Black, Akin, Hug, Messi, George, Lion Head... Most of them are no longer there, they have gone to heaven to wait for you, you are the oldest living star among dogs, you know? The dog's life is so full and short!
Abu, you haven't eaten or drunk for five days, you can't move your head, you won't close your eyes and sleep for a while, so you keep your eyes open and you don't want to close for a second... I know you are too nostalgic for the world, Dad knows, we are also too reluctant to you, every second we get along is so precious, you are old, we are old, at least we have been with each other on the road to common old age.
I saw, tears slipped from your big eyes, Abu don't cry, Dad don't cry, we have so many good memories, every minute we are together is so happy, we walk together, swim together, skateboard together, Abu also went to see Dad play football, sitting quietly on the side of the court watching, very well-behaved, loved by everyone.
Abu, in the last moment of your nostalgia, I use my mobile phone to show you the photos of when you first came, when you just arrived home and were still afraid of life, your father was still crying and whimpering in fear when he left; I put the photos of Abu and his parents to show you; I put the photos of Abu and his grandparents to show you (grandparents are the relatives who spend the most time with you, take good care of you, and thank you very much for bringing them seven years of warm companionship), so that you will not forget us when you get there, and don't be afraid of loneliness, we will always think of you, Always love you, we will see each other again in the next life, you will always be our most well-behaved and handsome Abu.
Seven years and two thousand five hundred days, Abu, thank you for your company, keep us warm every day, thank you for leaving a beautiful chapter in our lives that can never be forgotten.
When you get to heaven and think of us, you will turn into stars and blink, Parents, grandparents, we will all see.
Goodbye, my little clingy man!
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At 3:55 a.m. on October 17, 2021 (the fifth day of Abu's death), I was awakened from my dream by a strong uneasiness, my chest was blocked like a heavy object, I guessed that Abu was gone, and I was afraid to go downstairs to see it because I was afraid to come true. Around 5 o'clock, my parents got up and found that Abu had quietly left, his body was still soft and still warm, it seemed that he really left at about 3:55... My heart is like a knife, I missed the inspiration like this, I couldn't accompany you at the last moment, how lonely and helpless you were when you left... Rest in peace, my Abu, love you forever, in the next life we will go to play football and walk together...