Beth Bradley

But one night, we were all sitting down to dinner.

We were going to get to watch TV and eat dinner at the same time in the TV room, which was a big deal.

So we're all getting set up, and we notice Susie's nowhere.

And so one other thing about Susie is, like, she might not have been as into us as we were into her.

So she really just mainly liked waiting at the window for people to bark at.

But dinner time was one time she would deign to be with us because she liked to eat the crumbs off the floor.

So it was very suspicious that she wasn't around.

So we're calling for her.

We're like, Susie, Susie, she's not coming.

So we figure she must be outside.

So my two sisters and I go outside to look for her.

We're calling for her some more.

We don't see her, but we do see this little shape toward the back of the yard.

So we're running toward it, and as we get closer, we hear this kind of weird, low wheezing sound.

And we get there, we see that it's Susie, and it's her little limp body.

She's laying there, and she's actually gotten her head stuck in a drain from the house, and she's suffocating.

So we're panicking, we're screaming for my parents, they run outside, and it's kind of a blur, like my mom finds the kitchen scissors to actually cut her out of this tube, and we free her.

But by that time, she's not breathing, and we're just panicking.

So my dad scoops her up, and I just remember her little head just kind of lolls to the side, and her eyes had kind of glassed over.

So we run inside the house, and just like total pandemonium, crying, trying to find the vet's number.