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I Like Butt Scratches & I Cannot Lie!

From Lucky's Mum

Hi, At 8 pm Sunday evening my dear friend Dieter (aka "the german") and I had to rush Lucky to Angell Memorial to be euthanized as she quickly began to deteriorate. We had hoped to have a home euthanasia but her condition was not stable enough for the time needed to do such. She was surrounded by Dieter, Lindsey and myself. She looked at Dieter lovingly until the very end... as she had always done. I was her mom...he was her best friend. We had an amazing three months and a particularly great weekend in which we were blessed to have the chance to get what I am sure will be some amazing photographic memorials to the great love we both shared with her. I am forever grateful to Mark Ostow for this. He did not need to take time out of his schedule like he did and I will never be able to thank him enough. Dieter's 10 month old daughter Anouk, who will not remember her on her own, fed her salmon by hand hours before we knew it was time. We were able to videotape it and are thankful for that. I want to thank everyone who showed patience with me and compassion during the last several months. Lucky was a better person than most of the humans I have ever known and she was my teacher for the last 10 years. While I have lost pets in the past nothing was ever like this. She was beyond special. I am now trying to figure out who I am after ten years of defining myself as Lucky's mom and companion. I hope that everyone who reads this has the opportunity to experience the bond with an animal like that which I have experienced with Lucky. For those of you that have supported her through the dog treats... an endowment is being created in her name at Angell inorder to help other pets facing cardiac cancers and their owners, who due to financial difficulties would otherwise euthanize... this fund will allow them the gift of time... the ability to afford procedures like Lucky had undergone in order to help secure more quality time. Lucky did not suffer. She was happy and loved and wagged (or "fwapped" as some of you know it by) her tail until the moment she looked at us and told us that she was ready to move on to whatever her next chapter was to be. I hope that we shall meet again. If we do not perhaps she will bless one of you. Keep an eye out for chocolate and gold flecked eyes and a soul so gentle your heart melts when you are within it's radar.

Thank you all.

Long Journey

So, it's been a great time but I have had a couple bad news trips to Angell lately. Dr. Marshall ran some x-rays today and it looks like the nasty has spread to my lungs. I am having some difficulty breathing and I am really tired. I am planning on spending a weekend with my favorite humans and even having a professional modeling shoot on Saturday with this great guy Mark Ostow that my mum knows from her job. Then on Monday I might take an extended nap because I am pretty tired. I know my mum will miss me... I will miss her too but we will see eachother again sometime in the future. She is a good human. Everybody take care of yourselves.

My mum is a slacker!!!!

So, I finally got my mum to get off her lazy human butt and update my diary!!!

Okay, with all fairness to her she has been dealing with a crazy landlord and crazy downstairs neighbors, looking for a new apartment, the holidays, work, contractors, police, and a slew of other things but she needs to put me first...me me me!!!!

I know she does, I am the most important person...err canine, in her life and I know this but sometimes I want a bit more attention. Today she came home and took me for a quick pee in the backyard and dog gone it I wanted a full play time...I wanted ball!!! Yesterday I went for a walk through the Arboretum with "The Germans" and my mum and at the top of Peter's Hill Dieter and my mum played "Dog Soccer" with me. We use a huge tennis ball cause I can't fit a soccer ball in my dainty lady like mouth (unlike some dogs I know. ..ahem...no need to name dogs...Baloo knows who he is. OOPS!!!)

So, my health has been ok... I had arough acupuncture appt before Christmas and a rough EKG...they found a clot on my tumour and my mum has been paranoid ever since. We are going heavy on the nutrition end though and my mum has been giving me massages. Hopefully she can find us an apartment in the first floor of a building. The three flights kill my knees and hips. I am no spring chicken... I am a winter pooch!!!


My mum took some new pics of me being cute and sleepy. She is going to post them to Dogster after updating this post.

To all of you who order the Lucky Monkey Treats...Thanks so so much! Your support is appreciated. Please email me at missluckster@gmail.com to set up a weekly or biweekly order. Don't let your pooch run out!!!! (or your kitty...the salmon ones are popular with the feline bunch!)

Thanks again everyone!!!!

Lucky Monkey Butt