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| Miss
B (14 mos) & Swiss (11 mos), 12/00 |
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| Louie
(13 yrs) & Swiss (11 mos) 12/00 |
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| Miss
B (Missy) Lab/Chow mix 12/00 - I got her in April, 2000. Out
looking for a neighbor's lost cat, and a man was walking this adorable 5
mos Lab mix. She was all over me. He said she was available
for adoption at the vet on the corner of my neighborhood. I went
home and thought about it for maybe 10 minutes, grabbed my purse, went to
the vet, plopped my money down for her adoption fees and shots. She
was about the size of Swiss below (for a couple of days). You could
almost see her growing. She now weighs about 75 lbs., loves
everyone, flirts with everyone and makes me laugh every day. |
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Swiss
is part Spaniel/Catahoula -- I got Swiss in June, 2000. I was
at my bank (formerly Swiss Ave Bank) on a Saturday morning. I had
just pulled out of the drive-in on to Peak and was planning to turn left
on Live Oak. A street bum was walking down the street with this
little tiny puppy running behind him. The bum cut right across
traffic on Live Oak, and the puppy followed. A pick up driver missed
the bum and grazed the puppy. Swiss ran under a Honda and was just
screaming in pain. Everyone but the bum and the pick up truck
stopped. The whole intersection just stopped. I crawled under
the Honda to pull Swiss out. He was a filthy mess. I
took him to the vet. Both sides of his jaws were fractured.
The vet let me bathe him for fleas there because that little fellow was
carrying pounds of bugs on him. My vet said we would have to anesthetize
him to x-ray the jaws and would have to wait until Monday. Long
story short -- he had to go to a vet orthodontist, lots of money later,
six weeks of taped muzzle and plastic bonnet, he recovered well.
The day I brought him, Missy assumed I had brought him home for her, and
vice versa. These two dogs just are such great pals. |
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| Miss
B is just a Southern belle. She is either in full party hearty mode,
or very pensive like this. |
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| Cleo
17 when she passed, 10/00. These pictures don't do her
justice. She was so sick and wasted with complications from
asthma. She had been lively and demanding -- always Alpha Cat from
the time I brought her in from my patio, where her mother (a stray that I
later adopted) delivered her and her siblings. |
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| My
living room, with some of my carnival collection 7/01 |
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