Rainbow Bridge Remembrance Day

Ginger, my heart 

Chip, CEO of Dachshund Security

Anna Rose I, the love of Geoff's life

The Thai Master!

Today, Blogville is pawticipating in Rainbow Bridge Remembrance Day.  We have posted photos of our beloved angels, Ginger, Chip, Thai and Anna Rose, all of whom we lost in the last three years (Ginger, Thai and Anna within six months of each other)  While our hearts still mourn, we can recall all that they gave us and how they each and together improved our mundane lives.  

Ginger was my very first dachshund, and my heart.  Her sudden death tore me apart and it took over two weeks time before I wa able to come to grips with her absence. Thai followed her six weeks later due to congestive heart failure.  His loss, while not unexpected due to his numerous health issues, dealt another blow to a grieving family. Anna Rose's death was devastating- we knew from the start of her reign over us, that her time was limited- at most two years due to her kidney stones.  She ruled over Geoff with a long fur covered paw for one year and two days, succumbing to the blood clot on her heart that prevented her from breathing normally and causing her to undergo numerous seizures that took away the Anna that we knew and loved. Chip left us last year, my tough guy and shadow- he was too afraid of the outside world and could no longer cope with the love we gave him.  I still hate myself for having to put him down, for I failed him and I always will know that I did.

   

NATIONAL DOG DAY!!!!!

Peaceful #ProtestPP St Louis Sings How Great Thou Art

We are finally BACK!!!!!

Nurse trainee Sweetie here!

WHN (and boy is that nickname accurate!), finally received the all clear from her first dogtor to get up and do anything to get out of our furs!  Yesterday she thought (and we all know how dangerous that can be)  that she would be scheduling her next surgery to have Ripley Jr removed (Ripley Jr was her smaller g tube that was inserted three weeks ago).  NO!!!!  Her g tube was removed by Dr Snoopy's fellow surgeon in his office and she is now going around wearing only a bandaid- what a big baby.  

One would think , with all of her moaning and whining about scars and surgeries and pain, that she had suffered a truly stupendous wound a la our fearless Puddles:  

Now, she does have a rather largish surgical wound that needs to heal, due to the large tubes she was wearing, but seriously-  PUDDLES has the truly fabulous wound and scar!  And no whining either!   WHN is only wearing a large bandaid for the next week while her so called gaping hole heals over, so she cannot go swimming or take a bath, but other than that- she is good to go!

So, for all of you waiting on her donations from the WDA auction- both Sasha's quilt, Gibson's stocking and the cat quilt will all go out in the mail NLT the middle of September!  WHN has a Legion of Mary banner and the wedding quilt for the WDA to finish first, and then those three projects, and then she can finally get the vestment embroidery done for her favorite priest, Father Kunz.  Yes, we know that she is forgetting someone, but you know her!

So now we get to chain her to her two machines so she finally gets cracking!

RAINBOW BRIDGE ALERT- Gentle STORM from the White Dog Army

Gentle STORM, our newest cousin in the White Dog ARmy,went to the Rainbow Bridge completely unexpectedly.  Her pawrents, Sue and Steve, are devastated, as is her pack, Blogville's beloved White Dog ARmy.  Please click on Storm's name to leave your condolences for her family.