June 13, 2007

•            In Loving Memory of Curly

            June 12, 1993--Oct. 12, 2006

    Today would be Curly's 14th Birthday; he expired 8 mo. ago today- age 13yrs. 4 mo.  In dog yrs. he was 91+, but he didn't act that old. He could still romp and play up until 2 days before he died. He came to live with us on Aug. 25, 1998 and we had the pleasure of having him as part of our family for over 8 yrs. He developed congestive heart failure sometime in 2004, but seemed to do well inspite of it until the eve of Oct 10th, he seemed out of breath and rather weak. I took him to the vet the next day and got medication, but that night he just couldn't breathe any more....and expired. It was a sad day...even if he was just a dog.

    He was an affectionate little fellow and quite smart. He knew all of us by name....when we asked where "so n so" was, he'd look at that person, or when we told him to go out with....whoever was to take him to the bathroom, he'd look at that person and then follow along. When the children told him, "go to Mama" he'd come find me even if I was way in another part of the house.

  He had the priviledge of traveling with us quite often and these are the states he got to visit with us...Arkansas, Indiana, Wisconsin, Oregon, S. Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Oklahoma, Texas, Ohio, and Colorado. Missouri was the central location at that time, so he also got to travel through quite a few states on the way to the above mentioned states. He was a good traveler and loved to go 'bye-bye'.

  He loved to eat human food even better than his own "Fit & Trim" poochy food, but since poodles have very delicate digestive systems, we had to be careful what we gave him. Some of his favorite snacks were: green olives, baby carrots (till he lost his teeth) bananas, grapes, small bits of apples, cheese, and of course any kind of meat we would eat, certain kinds of sugared cereals, and of course he especially loved when I poured the broth off of canned meats onto his dog food. He'd slurp that up in a hurry!

  We have a lot of interesting pictures of him, but not very many on this computer. Wish I'd have the ones where he wore baby clothes, rode a horse, sat in the doll carriage, sat on a Lttle Tykes John Deere tractor and lots of other things the children had him do.Will post some that I do have and these were all taken since we live in Colorado.

    I like watching out the window where we're going.

    Standing in the laundry sink waiting for my bath. (I hate baths!)

  I love wearing this comfy hoodie while my hair is still wet.

  "Hi there! I love you too!"

   I love sleeping in my own bed.

  My faithful nurse and companion...this picture was taken in my last hours. "Thank-you to my beloved family for all the good times we had and all the memories we shared."

   

  P.S. "HAPPY BIRTHDAY!" to our bro.-in-law "EARL"

  Hope you had a great day!

  "A righteous man regardeth the life of his beast."  Proverbs 12:10

  P.S II One of these days I'll post some wedding pictures. I was waiting till JoLynn sends the cd of the professionals, but guess I can start once with the snap-shots off the girls' cameras.

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