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Shadow! Load up the tennis ball launcher...

...there's a newby headed to Piddler's Green (across the street from Fiddler's Green).  Dark Lord Sly's family lost a furperson.


Her name was Sadie, and while she wasn't with us long (she was only 5), she was nonetheless a fighter. She was one of two littermates, the only one to survive having been poisoned after chewing on pieces of railroad tie that were lying around the desert where we were last stationed. And while she survived, she was forever changed physically. She never got bigger than a five month old pup and was plagued with a yeast infection in her skin that we could never get rid of. It was this infection, I believe, that finally took her. She may have been small, but Bill knows, she was my little Napoleon. She had the heart of a lion, and would never back down from any of her much larger 'brothers' or 'sister' -- or the coyotes and other loose dogs that roam the valleys where we live right now.


Detail!  Fall in!

Gunner!  Put that squirrel down!  Jake!  Don't pick it *up*!  Sheesh.  Muffy, get this crowd under control.

Better.

Paw... SALUTE!

Now is the time at Castle Argghhh! when we dance sing a soul to the Great Hunting Ground and Tennis Ball Chasing Facility at Piddler's Green

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Sorry John. If I lived closer, I'd come out and assist with grave detail. It has to be doubly difficult this time of year.
 
I lost my sweet 3 year old cat Simon Gabriel to a freak accident a couple months back.  He was a friendly soul who overcame a lot of health problems as well.  I'm sure he'll make a tremendous playmate for Sadie.
 

FM - Sadie isn't one of ours, she was a member of DL Sly's family.  We honor the losses among all the Denizens, not just here at the Castle proper.

 

Ball thrown, bone made available... and a nice, cushy bed to sleep on.
Sorry for your loss, Sly.

 
Thx, John, everyone.  She is sorely missed.
 
Even after so many years, I still miss dearly my Rottie.  She left a big empty hole that time hasn't filled.  I know that it is the same for you DL Sly.
 
Sly - So sorry for the loss of your beloved Sadie.  Having lost a furperson of my own this year, I feel your pain.
 
As the daughter of a dog breeder, I completely understand how hard it is to lose a member of the family like this. I'm so sorry, Sly. She was beautiful. Pit? Or AmStaff?
 
So very sorry.
 
I send my most earnest heartfelt condolences.  Wherever she goes, may the tennis balls be easy to catch, and may all of the trees bear low-hanging steaks.
 
Sly, I am sorry for your loss.  ((((hugs))))  Sadie was beautiful...
 
Oh that we were as good as dogs think we are ... so sorry, DL Sly & family.