Samson

Dear our wonderful community:

Pardon my English grammar s and this post is very very long. And also I added more than 200 pictures/movies of him. Hope we allow to post this here.

We are parents of our precious loving boy Samson who passed away on Dec 13 suddenly. He was with us only exactly three years since he came to Canada and became our first son since December 13 , 2020.

First of all, thank you so much for whoever trying to find our sweet boy and giving us thoughtful words for Sam and us. We apologize each of you that we can't meet and tell thank you your actions and comments.

We realized that how much our boy was and still is loved by this community and we are so proud of him as his parents having such a special boy in our lives. He was such a loyal, sweet, affection, attached, smart, handsome and sometimes funny and silly boy.

We wanted to share who he is and our life story with Samson with this community because we want people to know how much he was wonderful and special boy, and don't want you to forget him.

Samson became our first son on December 2020. He was rescued by Homeless Pet Canada and came from Chile. He was found at a street and someone tied him to the tree. The rescue group was looking for his forever home for long time. (We had no idea why no one wanted to adopt such a handsome boy sooner) He was approximately one and half year old when he became our first son. We have never had a DNA test to find out his breed but believe he was a mix of Basset hound and German Shorthair Pointer by how he looked and his behavior. (Sometime he was run super fast and sometime he was super lazy) We decided to adopt him around June 2020 but waited for him to come to Canada for a while since it was covid time and flights were cancelled until December. He came here right before Christmas so he was literally a Christmas present for us. We remember that he immediately accepted us as his parents since we met him.

The first couple of months, we worked on so hard to erase his separation anxiety. We both never had own dog previously. Besides, we really didn't know about rescue dogs' behaviors. So we were exploring and finding out ways how to comfort and treat him. He eventually understood that we always came back home from the work so started to wait for us calmly but stayed beside the entrance door until we were home. However, he didn't want to stay alone on weekends when both my husband and I went out. So we always took him with us or gave up going somewhere like to go to restaurants during summer time because of the hot weather and stayed home with him.

Since we started going to go to a dog park at Maple street in Poco, Samson made tons of friends there and had great time playing with them. He gave us the opportunity to know tons of wonderful fur babies parents as well. Those people were helping us so much to find our sweet boy so hard. If we didn't have him, we won't know anyone in this community. Samson was so good with any kind of dog friends and he was so tempting by his friends and they loved him so much. So many strangers at streets told us how much he was a handsome and cute boy so we were always proud of being his parents. We also brought him to Mundy park and Barnet highway park often on weekends and he enjoyed so much playing there freely. He loved to be chased by another friends and he was so good to run so fast in the forest and sometimes hide so that we were enjoying to watch that his friends were trying to find him. It was so fun for us to watch their play always. We encouraged and taught him how to swim at the ocean or river. Playing at water became one of his favorite plays. He loved to play with sticks. My husband sometimes collected lots of sticks from beside the dog park. Samson was so exited to see him holding tons of sticks. He loved snow and was so exited running in the snow. At home, he usually chilled on a couch but always observed us. He was so curious and followed us everywhere and checked what we were doing. During the nights, we always shared the bed. We have one cat which also comes to our bed so four of us always slept together on the small bed and snuggled each other. He was photogenic dog, he just came beside us and faced the cameras. He loved a car ride as well and loved to saw outside. We took him to hiking lots and camping only once. He was always followed and sticked with us and never tried to escape. We always took him everywhere and spending time together. He was literally a part of us.

I'm over 40's but luckily we had a beautiful twin boys this year. Samson became a sweet and protective brother for his little brothers. He always stays beside the twins, especially when we had someone in the house so that he guarded them. One day when one of my friends helped me to take care of the twins, one of the twins started crying. So that my friend was about to change his diaper. However, Samson rushed to him and my friend and growled my friend because he must think my friend hurt the boy. I was so impressed his behaver and to know how much protective his brothers he was. We were so excited to see that these three boys would play together joyfully in the future when the twins grew up. But this dream no longer came true. At least, we wish if the twins remember him how much sweet and protective he was to them and loved them so much. We will tell these stories of Samson to them or show their pictures with him so that they know at least that he was such a sweet big brother for them.

I finally built my own dream family, having a wonderful guy as my husband, healthy twin boys and sweet dog and son, Samson. It was a perfect family I had and I was super lucky person having all of them in my life. But now without Samson, my family is no longer perfect. If Samson backs to our lives, we would do and give everything we could do.

Even though I am so thankful having own kids not only one but also two, raising twins is so challenging since both our parents are far away from us and we didn't get help. Some of our family members and friends mainly from the dog park have been helped us so much and we really appreciate it. Despite of these helps, unfortunately, I am having a postpartum depression and I was hospitalized for a couple of days a couple of month ago. That's why I decided to go back to my country, Japan, and stayed for a while with the twins to have my family's help (Also, I hadn't gone back to my country over 5 years and wanted my family to meet my boys as the first time, of course). Because it was impossible to travel with such young babies by myself, my husband came with us on December 8 and he was going to go back to Canada after one week. This tragedy happened while we are away from Canada. He escaped from our friend/dog sitter's house. I tried to make sure he was okay with them while we were in Japan so that arranged a couple of walks with them and asked them to watch Samson for a couple of hours prior to leave for Japan. He started to recognize and looked fine with them so I didn't worry about leaving him with them. By the way, they are such nice people and treated our son very kindly. So this is not their fault at all and they are so devastated too now. They spend hours to search him and are now offering us to pay for the fee of the searchers.

We could not do anything for our sweet Samson during he was missing. Thankfully, tons of people and this community were searching our son for us and spending so much their time for him. Some of them were searching him until midnight, started searching him from very early morning in the next day or going to Mundy park or anywhere potentially Samson went. We don't have enough words to thank you all for your incredible kind actions for Samson and us.. We hired a dog searcher and they started to look for him next day. Unfortunately, we found out right after they started to search him that our sweet son had gone already and it happened only two hours after he was missing. He was hit by a train nearby Port Coquitlam station around 530pm. He must look for me because I use WCE for the commutes and I arrived the station around the same time. Samson and my husband always picked me up from the station. So he was looking for me.............. I am blaming now why I didn't think that he would be around the area since he was spotted around Cat and Fiddles where nearby the rails. Why I didn't have the idea that he would look for me around the station. He was such a loyal and smart boy so I should have had known that he was heading there. It will be so hard for me to remember that he passed away around the station when I go back to work after the mat leave. I will try to think about all great memories of him instead. And I really really hope that his life was taken in a moment so that he didn't feel any pains and went to heaven immediately after the tragedy.

I am really really regretting now that I decided to go back to Japan. I shouldn't have had left our sweet boy alone. I can't apologize him enough for taking his precious life away. He was still so young and healthy boy. He is not deserve this ending at all.

Now we are trying to locate his body but unlikely he returns to us unfortunately..... So even we are not allowed to keep his ash with us. We will try to gather his hairs in our house as much as we can and keep them with us. This is only his remaining.

Again, we are really thanking all of our friends and tons of people whom we never met before that spending hours and trying to find our precious boy. Thank you so much. Also, after we found out his passing, tons of people are praying for Samson and giving us thoughtful words and offers. Thank you so much. Special thanks for our close friends from the dog park, Cash (Ember), Glen and Kelsey (Jax), Lisa (Lucy), Christine (Rupert), Sheena (Leelou), Xuee (Espresso), Clerissa (Chester), Kim (Misty) and Donna (Pebble) for spending so much time to searching Samson and supporting us during this hard moment. In addition, we thank you Feona Schalk who painted beautiful picture of Samson and offers to give it to us as a gift, and Laura Woodledge who owes a business of making beats with pets ashes and offers us to create the one for us as a gift. Again, we unlikely won't be able to have Samson's body back. So that she will try to make the one adding Samson's hairs that we will gather when we go back home. Samson was/is so lucky to have such wonderful friends and people in his life. He is deserve it.

We wish if we could be with him at his last day, hug tight, give a kiss him one more time and tell him thank you for giving us such wonderful, joyful and special memories for three years and how much we loved, still love and will love him rest of our lives. He must be scared and looked for us when we was missing. I am so sorry Samson. Our last wish for him is that he passed away in a moment and didn't feel any pains and cross the rainbow and play happily with his fur friends there now. I don't have a fear of death anymore because I know he will wait for me in the heaven like he always waited for us at the entrance of our house until we came back from works every single day. And we will be together forever. He is now our angel and will always protect our twin boys from the sky. We won't have a such special one in the future. There isn't any more special ones than him. He will be the best son forever.

Lastly, I'm embarrassing though, if you can afford chip in little money for us to cover the dog searchers fee and extra fee that we paid for changing my husband' flight, we really appreciate it. We came to Japan on Dec 8 and my husband was supposed to return Canada on Dec 18 due to wanted to spend Christmas with Samson and go to work more couple of says until holiday. He was so excited to treat and spoil him very very well while I and our twins are away. So that he could focus on him to spoil and take him lots of places and play together, especially Samson's favorite season. But now Samson passed away and our home is so empty, he decided to stay longer with us in Japan. Therefore we spend extra hundreds for changing the flight. Also, we spend thousands for the dog searchers but unfortunately they found out that Samson had already gone one day before they started to search him. They tried to find Samson's body using drone but could not. They tried so hard to find him and we really appreciate their work. These unexpecting expense impacts to our financial situation. So what if you could chip in little like a couple of bucks, we really appreciate your kindness. Also, we are planning to donate some to the rescue group that brought Samson to our lives. Samson must be proud of himself to help more precious lives to rescue and find their forever homes. If you are not comfortable to donate money to us directly, here is the rescue group's name, so please consider to do so through their website directly: Homeless Pets Canada Society

Samson will be so honor to help more and more precious creatures to find their forever home and give them a wonderful life.

Please don't forget our precious son and remember him sometimes how much special boy he was. Also, please pray his rest in peace.

I know so many people left kind comments for our boy or remember him under the posts what were made by someone else. But if you could leave the comments or share memories of Samson here again, we really appreciate it and can keep all kinds words in my FB page.

Samson, we love you and miss you so much forever. We am so sorry for happening this to you.

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