Pyrless

I was so proud to be with you, no matter where we went; and we traveled all over North America. You acted as a Therapy Dog in New Orleans and Bayou Labattre Alabama, after Hurricane Katrina. People found moments of calm petting you. We volunteered in a youth prison. The kids loved you, you brought "normal" to them. We volunteered in homes for the aged. You were 100+ pounds of gentleness. We stayed at countless hotels/motels in places we had never been. You made me feel perfectly safe. You waited in the woods 10 hours for me after a car accident, when I was put in an ambulance without you. Pyrless, I named you for the word "peerless", which means "without equal". Your breed was Great PYRenees. It turned out to be such a perfect name for you. You ran 3k most days, even when elderly. So powerful, beautiful, gentle, comforting you were. Pyrless, I miss you with all of my heart. On I go, but I will never recover the piece of me that died with you. Hopefully some peoples' ideas about an afterlife are true, because to see you again, even once, would bring me peace. You'll never, ever be forgotten. Your image has been seen literally all over the world, because an Australian artist did your portrait for me, and sells prints of your beautiful self. To me, at least, you were bigger than life. To others, someone's dog, but to me, the greatest dog and dog partner in the world. If there is a Rainbow Bridge, promise to meet me there one day Pyrless.