Rest in Peace, Lilly
Lilly Hawn was the original canine heroine of Champion of My Heart. She became famous for a number of things, including being incredibly fearful of the world at large, surviving all manner of medical scares, including 2 separate rattlesnake bites to the face and paintball poisoning that resulted in technicolor vomit.
Unfortunately, Lilly died after a 23- month fight for her life — following a severe rabies vaccine reaction.
You’ll find her life documented in blog posts between April 2007 and December 2013.
Read Lilly’s imagined origin story now — From Whence She Came
Here are a few of the most important posts from that final, sad stage in the story of Lilly Hawn.
Lilly is the reason I wrote a best-selling pet loss book …
The death of any dog is hard. The death of a Heart Dog – a canine soul mate – is much, much worse.
Canine soul mates may happen just once in a lifetime. With such great love comes epic grief after your Heart Dog dies. Even if you’ve experienced pet loss before, life without your canine soul mate is much harder. Typical grief advice isn’t enough. Sometimes challenging traditional thinking about grief, Heart Dog answers all the big questions about canine soul mates, offers practical ideas for coping with each day’s dose of grief, and provides inspiration for finding your place in the world after such a profound loss. Strategies and insights come from the author and 500 people who participated in an online survey. Others have survived the grief. You can too. Let Heart Dog be your guide.
