Oct 12 2018
I wanted to take a minute and do two things. First, I want to thank you all for the love and support you’ve shown over the past few days. We all very much appreciate it. ☺ Secondly, I feel like I need to provide some clarification in regards to the pets we’ve lost over the …
Apr 24 2018
This is a short but interesting update, dealing with how Ruby is doing since Maggie passed. We’ve had animals pass away before and there’s almost always a change in those that remain. When Cleo died last year, Blue (our only remaining cat) became much more outgoing than he’d been previously. When Maggie died a little …
Apr 20 2018
It’s been one week since Maggie passed away and we wanted to try to keep the kids distracted today. Kids with Autism are especially prone to struggling with loss and tend to benefit a great deal from distraction. Trying to process already confusing emotions is difficult and at least my kids tend to perseberate. It’s …
Apr 19 2018
Tomorrow marks one week since Maggie passed away. I’m not sure if the significance of the day will strike the kids or not but I’m certainly not going to raise their attention to it. We’ve been preparing for awhile now that Maggie wouldn’t be around forever but we had no idea how soon she would …
Apr 16 2018
It’s been an emotional weekend for all of us here in The Autism Dad household. Losing Maggie has been devastating for all, but especially for Elliott and Emmett. They’re feeling the loss a bit differently because they have basically never known a time where Maggie wasn’t here. They were both so young when we got …
Apr 14 2018
In November of 2008, Emmett was almost six months old and we were a dog-less family, not looking for a dog. In a completely random occurrence, Lizze stumbled across a picture of a dog with the most amazing smile. We weren’t looking for a dog because we had just recently had Emmett but we found …
Mar 13 2018
Maggie is our roughly twelve year old English Staffy. We’ve had her since she was two years old and she’s the best dog anyone could ask for. We have so many amazing memories with her and she’s a loved member of our family. Sadly, I fear we’re reaching a point in time where we may …
Sep 26 2017
I took Maggie to the vet this morning. She needed some vaccines before she could be boarded on Thursday, for our trip to Florida the following day. The physical appointment went well but we got some sad news. As we suspected, Maggie has begun losing her hearing. This was pretty obvious based on the fact …
