Back in
December, just exactly 2 weeks before Christmas we had to say good-bye to our
dear, sweet, princess Lady. She was so
smart and dainty and proper and sweet.
She lived to the ripe old age of 110 (17 ½ people years) and just couldn’t
go any further. My son was 3 when we got
her – they grew up together and were such awesome friends.
She didn’t
have the word “quit” in her. Her
favorite game of Frisbee would go until we got tired of throwing it. No matter how exhausted she may have been, if
you threw it she would chase it – she might not bring it back right away, but
she would chase it. Even just last summer when she was 110 years old mostly
completely blind and deaf, she went camping and hiking with us. We took her on easy trails,
but she did a 3 km hike with us. Her
favorite place to be was anywhere we were.
1997 |
2014 |
She was
such a beautiful girl and even with this little bit of time between when we
said good-bye and now, I cannot talk about her without tearing up. She was my faithful companion and bestest
best friend for so long. I miss her
still so, so much. I treasure her memory and she will always hold a very
special place in my heart.
Good-bye dear
sweet Lady. You lived well and blessed
our lives for being a part of it.
And now to “Hello”.
The house was
just too empty without my Lady-love. Too quiet, too hard to walk into everyday
coming home from work and not having her wagging her tail to greet me. We weren’t planning on
I went looking on the
AARCS website – you know – just to see what they had. Fell in love with the
looks of one dog after
another only to be told they were already spoken for. I kept coming up on
this picture and figured he would be gone quickly too because he is just so
darned cute! Turned out he was meant to
be ours. We decided to meet him and fell
in love immediately. They told us that
he was likely a Rottweiler/German Sheppard cross with maybe some Collie thrown
in. We called him Rascal. I picked the name just based on this picture
before I even met him. Believe me it
suits him to a T.
That was
January 10th. It is now March
25 and we have laughed hard every single day since we got him. He is a clown and so very funny. His antics would be the stuff legends were
made of, if only we could actually capture them on video. He has no sense of space around him so falls
off the couch at least once a day. He
leaps straight into the air whenever I put on my jacket or sweater because he
wants to either go for a walk or car ride.
He loves being with his people so much that he gets mad when we even
close a door on him (like the bathroom) but we can’t
take him into the bathroom when we have a bath or shower because he jumps right in with us, he loves water so much. Can’t wait for summer for him to be able to go swimming. He is sassy and “talks back” if I tell him to stop doing something that he is doing.
take him into the bathroom when we have a bath or shower because he jumps right in with us, he loves water so much. Can’t wait for summer for him to be able to go swimming. He is sassy and “talks back” if I tell him to stop doing something that he is doing.
I have to get up early just to give him some cuddle time
every morning because he is the snuggliest pup I have ever met.
We did a DNA test on him and it turns out that they got 2 of
the 5 breeds that make him who he is
right.
He is: Border Collie/Collie/Rottweiler/Boxer
and Labrador Retriever. He gets his
looks from the first 3. His personality
is 100% Boxer and the Lab explains his relationship with water. He also part Moose – he is soooo clumsy. Right now I have to try to keep him still for
3 weeks because he has an injury to his elbow causing him to limp. I can’t even take him for a walk, but can’t
stop him from running laps around the yard.
While I still miss my girl so much, this
new love has equally captivated my heart and I am sure that we will have so
many fantastic years together.