Napping in the warm sunshine

Here's my baby  err...old man  dog at my daughter's house. She said he lays outside on the deck in the sun all day long. She watches him for me while I work. When she moved out, she took the two black dogs we have (Cheech and Chong) to her house. The boxer has serious separation anxiety. I cannot leave him at home alone. My neighbor says he howls all day long when he is alone. He also scratches the wood on the doors and almost tears the place up.

I found him in 2009 (a month or so after I picked up Cheech and Chong). The vet said he could be anywhere from 1 to 3 years old. Boxers average lifespan (I believe) is around 10 years.

Good-bye, Sable

We put our older dog Sable, down on Wednesday. She was slowly getting worse over the last couple of years - the vet said she had really bad arthritis and could not guarantee an operation would be successful.  She fell down our basement steps and must have ruptured something.

The vet said the x-rays showed a possible tumor on either her heart or her spleen. Something inside ruptured and she had severe internal bleeding.

We had her cremated and the funeral home furnished a beautiful wooden box with her remains. That leaves 3 dogs and four cats. And one cat ain't lookin' so good.