Well, when I grew up we always had a dog for a family pet. "Polly" was the family bassett hound, we also had "Misty" the cat. As pets go, they were fine, however I was not much of an animal person. Never had been, thought that I never would be. Fast forward to 2000, when I met "Sport" my brother-in-law's Dachshund. Immediately I fell in love. With a dog. Sport is a red dachshund, and is so sweet, and so adorable. A few months later we got a call that Sport had sired a litter of puppies. Did we want one? Without a moment's hesitation we went to see the little dogs. Thumper came home with us that night. As much as I had fell in love with Sport, now I had my very own, and I loved that precious animal just like she was one of my children...
We had Thump for 4 years. She developed back problems, so we took her to Gainesville to Shands Veterinary Clinic for back surgery, she died during the surgery. The anesthesia machine malfunctioned. It was devastating to our whole family. There was a hole in my heart, I cried for 4 solid days, and then I told Karl, my husband, that he had to get me another little dog. So that next day we found one in Jacksonville. Miss Ellie Mae brightened up my days. I grew to love her as much as I loved Thumper. Miss Ellie is solid black, and is just beautiful. She is 1 1/2 years old. Back in July Karl came home from his brother's and said that he had seen the cutest puppy. A solid white dachshund...with a red head and a couple of brown spots on her back...well a few hours later we were a 2 dog family, Bessie Lew had entered our lives. And happily so. I cannot imagine what we would do without the girls. They go just about everywhere with us. I just never imagined that animals could bring so much happiness to our lives. Which brings me to the whole point of this post...On Easter Sunday after lunch we were sitting on the back porch talking about how wonderful the girls (dogs) are, and the next thing I knew, the Easter Bunny had made a special delivery to me-----ANOTHER LITTLE TINY DACHSHUND! Sandra Dee.
We had Thump for 4 years. She developed back problems, so we took her to Gainesville to Shands Veterinary Clinic for back surgery, she died during the surgery. The anesthesia machine malfunctioned. It was devastating to our whole family. There was a hole in my heart, I cried for 4 solid days, and then I told Karl, my husband, that he had to get me another little dog. So that next day we found one in Jacksonville. Miss Ellie Mae brightened up my days. I grew to love her as much as I loved Thumper. Miss Ellie is solid black, and is just beautiful. She is 1 1/2 years old. Back in July Karl came home from his brother's and said that he had seen the cutest puppy. A solid white dachshund...with a red head and a couple of brown spots on her back...well a few hours later we were a 2 dog family, Bessie Lew had entered our lives. And happily so. I cannot imagine what we would do without the girls. They go just about everywhere with us. I just never imagined that animals could bring so much happiness to our lives. Which brings me to the whole point of this post...On Easter Sunday after lunch we were sitting on the back porch talking about how wonderful the girls (dogs) are, and the next thing I knew, the Easter Bunny had made a special delivery to me-----ANOTHER LITTLE TINY DACHSHUND! Sandra Dee.
She looks exactly like Miss Ellie. She is 6 weeks old, weighs less than 2 pounds. She looks like a Beanie Babie that walks. So now we are a three dog family. I wonder if these little animals know how lucky they are that we have them. We sure know how lucky we are to have them.
awww!!! Such pretty little girls... but one's missing!! Little Paisley!
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I miss my little gurlies...2 weeks has been WAY TOO LONG*
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