In Memorium

So, our family dog Gem died this past Sunday. We got both her and her brother about 15 years ago. She was a great dog, even if she didn't care for men (but then who can blame her...sometimes men are real stinkers!). I'm not as affected as the younger ones, and we all mourn in our own way, so I wanted to post some pictures of Gem and tell a few stories. It's my blog, I get to do that. :)

Gem was named because of this spot on her head. It did look like a little diamond when she was younger, but as she got older it became just a splotch of brown. She had the original "puppy dog eyes". I never could resist her, and she had this habit for when you stop petting her...she'd either put her head under your hand and toss it or put her paw on you leg and dig in her claws. Either way she got your attention.

We even lost her for about 5 months when my family still lived in ND. To make what could be a long story short, she escaped the groomer's in mid-December and managed to get all the way to the other side of town (not a HUGE way, but quite a ways for her) after getting hit by a car and lived in the empty fairgrounds for the better part of a nasty ND winter (a pretty good miracle considering how skinny she is and always has been). A nice man found her and managed to trap her and bring her to the Humane Society where...Voila, she was reunited with her family. And there was much rejoicing! YAY!

She was missed then, is now and will be for some time. Even the other animals seemed somehow melancoly when I went home to visit.