Originally published at Jon's Blog. You can comment here or there.

After 21 wonderful years, Sparky passed away on the morning of April 13, 2006.

Thankfully he went when we could be with him, and I was petting him to let him know that we were there. I would have hated to have him go when he was alone. We took him to be cremated later that day.

That’s about all I can write at this moment…