Oh,...what a happy note to end this evening on! I can't wait to see your "baby pictures" of Miss Emma.
I know exactly what you went through,... because I had lost my wonderful cat Snickers a year and a half ago,... i grieved for months, then all of a sudden i was ready,...and now my beloved Midnight (Middy) is here beside me tonight. She had come to my friend's house as a stray and my friend kept her until I was ready .... so she moved in with me last Thanksgiving,... appropriate, eh?
So here is a hug for you and a touch of the fingertip on that lovely little puppy head!