Sad day...

We lost a member of our family today... our little puppy girl, Zoe, passed away. It was so unexpected. We had gone to church from 9 am to noon and when we got home I let her outside in the field to do her business then hooked her up to her cable outside our sliding door like I've done a thousand times before. About an hour later, I was sweeping the floor after lunch and asked Josh to take the rug outside and shake it out for me. He called me from his cell about 10 minutes later and told me he had found Zoe and at first she just looked asleep, but he quickly realized something was wrong and she wasn't responding. He was on his way to a vet that he uses for the police dog. They don't know if she ate a rock or she got stung by a bee and had an allergic reaction, but she was barely breathing and there was really nothing they could do. We felt horrible and Gabe is pretty upset. But it was such a fluke thing. One second she's outside chewing on her frisbee, the next she was gone. I am just glad Josh was home or I would've been freaking out. Gabe asked us if he'll ever see her again. We told him we'll see her in puppy heaven someday. Rest in peace sweet puppy girl! :(