One of the pups dies this morning. Over the past week or so, they’d gotten pretty active.  Each morning when we woke up, they would all clamor to get out of the pen. It had become part of the routine to take one or two and hold them, give one to MyeongHee and give one or two to DongHyun. They’d calm down after a little attention – and we all liked holding the little boogers.

I had two of them on my lap this morning. I was holding them, sipping coffee and reading the news on my computer. One of the pups, Byeol, wandered too close to the edge of my lap and fell.  She fell hard. She didn’t get a chance to catch herself on her paws and landed on the back of her head with a thud. She didn’t move. I knew she was hurt bad as blood was coming out of her nose and mouth – not much, but a hit on the back of the head that produces blood in any amount is bad.  After a minute she wiggled some and DongHyun rushed her to the animal clinic around the corner. Too late. The Dr. checked her out but within an hour or so she died.

It’s been a sad day here at our house.

Ironically, one of my students gave me a gift for the puppies today. She made a set of pillows for the dogs. She’s just a little girl, only 8 (6 or 7 in our counting) and had just stuffed some cloth with more cloth and wrapped the two ends with rubber bands.  They might have come in handy had we had them earlier