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Dog Culture: Tributes
After 16 years, saying goodbye to Cody was extremely difficult
After having a dog for 16 years, deciding to end his suffering was an extremely difficult decision because my family and I clung to our once lively companion. Even though the fateful decision was made on a chilly October night two years ago, all of the memories of him remain crystal clear.
I remember when I was three-years-old sitting in the backseat of our blue truck, next to a yellow Penzoil...
Dog Culture: Tributes
Two dogs find a permanent place in the heart of a family that desperately needed them
I wasn't sure I had the ability to love another dog after Ashley broke my heart.
Her death came suddenly on the kind of tender spring day she loved, a soft breeze riffling her fur on her walk, as she lifted her great head to breathe in the scent of awakened life and new beginnings.
And then, not long after, she began to experience seizures, lying distorted and convulsed on the living room rug...
Dog Culture: Tributes
July 25, 1994–August 31, 2010
Upon her passing, I am moved to jot down the wonderful memories about this vivacious little Papillon—a female, Joey, named for a baby kangaroo. So tiny when my daughter Kristin brought her home, black and white with huge fringed ears, actually looking more like a character from the Gremlins movie.
Through the years she had many call names:
Coco, she was French after all
Coco La Hara, a...
Dog Culture: Tributes
Teddy came to us late in life, at the age of 14. His owner Charlie was one of my mother’s real estate clients. When Charlie became ill and close to death, he called my mother. He knew she loved Bichon Frises like Teddy. (My mother had two Bichons already, who were featured in calendars she sent to clients like Charlie every year.) Charlie’s relatives did not share his love of animals, however,...
Dog Culture: Tributes
Gabe Millman thrived through all of life’s incarnations
Gabriel Millman of Lakewood, Colo., passed away at Belcaro Animal Hospital in Denver on Wednesday, September 1, 2010, two months shy of his 16th birthday. For several months, he had had canine anorexia, ultimately succumbing to kidney disease. His death was helped by his loving mother, Barbara Millman, and Belcaro staff.
Gabe was adopted by his mother at eight-weeks from The Denver Dumb Friends...
Dog Culture: Tributes
Erin's Journey
I didn’t know much about raising a puppy, but my eagerness to learn was undeniable. I wanted to raise a true companion, and to give the pup all the experiences the world had to offer. My furry pal would go everywhere with me but first I had to find just the right dog.
When I went to look at a litter of Springer Spaniel puppies, Erin cried out to me. All of the puppies were yelping and...
Dog Culture: Tributes
What makes a season? What is the nature of time? How much of time’s passage is a mathematical abstraction, and how much of it, if any, is a living, breathing organism, a life process, stirred and generated in part by our passage through it— a symbiotic relationship, or perhaps even at times a parasitic one, but a relationship nonetheless, in which two forces act, and are acted upon by each other...
Dog Culture: Tributes
in memory of Roscoe, a black Labrador
Some are born to talk and that’s a story,
And some know what to do with the gift
And that’s a different story—Roscoe
Born at the guide dog school,
But too sensitive for traffic,
Roscoe was a sweet talker.
All dogs “talk” but few have nuance:
Roscoe knew. Oh he knew
When you felt rich inside
So he had a word or two for that;
And even yesterday, lame and tired in wet grass
He had...
Dog Culture: Tributes
11/6/99 – 6/17/10
Cody died today.
He took off this morning, on a blue sky day…
Cody loved life with a gentle fierceness that we could almost touch.
I have never known a being more committed to being happy,
to finding the light in every single moment.
Diagnosed very early with dysplasia, arthritis, and severe allergies,
he was never strong physically, always a bit unsteady, off balance…
Spiritually his...
Dog Culture: Tributes
A reminder to animal-loving friends
A piece of my heart died recently. The loving, quirky, clumsy, gardening buddy and professional nap-taker we called Thud was put down.
Thud was a stray—found running down a San Fernando Valley street when he was just a few months old. We’re not sure what breed he was (probably a Pit Bull mix) but he had the most beautiful brindle coat and the sweetest, happy-go-lucky personality, very much a...
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