Death Comes With a Pounce... In Memory of Little Duck, Zeus and Nellie

My precious Little Duck, Zeus and Nellie were killed today by a dog.  If the dog had been hungry, I could more readily accept and move on.  But the dog was not hungry;he deliberately killed those little ducks in a frenzy for the sake of killing.  How frightened those babies must have been.  

Nick took the shovel and dug the holes in the flower bed around the flag pole.  We buried Little Duck, Zeus and Nellie together. 

Death comes with a crawl, or comes with a pounce,

And whether he's slow or spry,

It isn't the fact that you're dead that counts,

But only how did you die?

(From "How Did You Die" by Edmund Vance Cooke)

Good bye, my precious Little Duck

Good bye, funny little Zeus and Nellie 

You will always be a moment of wonder to me.