Life of Muffin-the moonlight and his family & sunshine…

Hello, I am Muffin. i am an eight months old Lhasa apso. I live in our house with my big family; that includes big buddies Horlicks & Cereal, grandma Dumpling, Aunt Hazel, my parents Caramel & Cookie. Also there are my human family, ma & grandpa lives with us, dad’s job is in another city so he comes at weekends & uncle lives in a far city so he visits only at holidays.
I was born in this house, my sister Princess Mocha lives in another palace. Our brother Pippin used to live with us but he crossed over the rainbow bridge on the last day of February.
In the photo collage I am the one sitting in the lower corner of the collage with my tongue out & in the bigger picture Pippin is laughing & lying behind me; by the side of the window that’s three of us with our parents. In the other picture that’s us with ma.
Me and Pippin, we used to look alike & almost everyone couldn’t tell us apart, sometimes they would call him Muffin; even now sometimes ma calls me Pippin & then realizes & starts crying. That makes me very sad. Pippin & I used to fight a lot, I miss that; Mocha visits us sometimes & she also gets sad because she misses him too.
Pippin was the naughty one, he chewed ma’s red velvet shoes & all the books under the coffee table, and he loved to chew the doorknobs too. But he was the funny one too; whenever ma was angry with him he would shake hand & when she was still angry he would do it with the other hand, he would keep doing it until she laughed; and when she laughed, he would give her sloppy kisses. He was also the jealous one, if ma gave me kisses in front of him, he would jump & try to bite my tail. He was the sidekick of Horlicks in all his mischievous missions.
But I am the quiet one, I never bark at 3 am, I don’t hide & fell asleep under the bookshelf, I do not chew & scratch everything & I don’t try to eat everyone’s food.
He was ma’s sweet little sunshine & I am her magical moonlight.
We all think Pippin went somewhere else to live like Mocha does. Sometimes our mother Cookie searches every corner of the house because she thinks he might have come back when she was not in the room.
That day Pippin left us, he was very sick & everyone was very busy with him. He was very quiet too; he didn’t even try to bite vet-uncle when he put the needle into his vein. Then he got a little better so ma got all happy that he is going to be alright, she asked him to get some sleep & said she would give him a good sponge bath with warm water the next day. She kept checking on him every hour & at the middle of the night she woke up to see that he is not breathing. Grandpa tried very hard to wake him up but he didn’t. Ma kept calling him & asking him to wake up because she can’t live without him, but he didn’t listen to her. Our father Caramel barked at him for not listening to ma but Pippin didn’t listen to anyone. Then grandpa took us all to another room but Horlicks didn’t go with us, he stayed with ma & Pippin for the rest of the night. We didn’t see Pippin after that night so we don’t know that he is lying in the garden under the mango tree. Ma promised him a tree with fragrant flowers after the first rain. She goes to the garden every day, sometimes Dumpling goes with her too.
Every morning when we play around, I miss Pippin so much. Sometimes Caramel pretends as if I am Pippin & he tries to play with me like they used to play, but that makes me more sad so I hide. & sometimes when someone asks me to do handshake I just stare at the wall because that was Pippin’s trick. Sometimes when I cry ma takes me on her lap, kisses me & says that “it’s alright”; and we both know it’s going to be alright because Pippin crossed over the rainbow bridge & went to the happy place; someday all of us will meet again & stay together forever; sunshine, moonlight & all the happy hearts.