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Little Musclebound Angel

Pippi was a foster here for five months. She was such a sweet, happy little girl. It's hard to think we're never going to see her again. But, we'll keep on truckin' with the rescue. There are a lot of very deserving death row pups needing a chance for a forever home, and meeting the incredibly sweet pups that came up on the last transport, we know that Pippi's memory would be best honored by finding great homes for as many as possible.

But we will miss that little girl. She had a way of reeling you in with those sweet, intense eyes of hers. There will never be another Pippipants. Never.

"And at night you will look up at the stars. Where I live everything is so small that I cannot show you where my star is to be found. It is better, like that. My star will just be one of the stars, for you. And so you will love to watch all the stars in the heavens . . . they will all be your friends.

"In one of the stars I shall be living. In one of them I shall be laughing. And so it will be as if all the stars were laughing, when you look at the sky at night . . . You--only you--will have stars that can laugh!"

And he laughed again.

"And when your sorrow is comforted (time soothes all sorrows) you will be content that you have known me. You will always be my friend. You will want to laugh with me. And you will sometimes open your window, so, for that pleasure . . . And your friends will be properly astonished to see you laughing as you look up at the sky! Then you will say to them, 'Yes, the stars always make me laugh!' And they will think you are crazy. It will be a very shabby trick that I shall have played on you . . ."

And he laughed again.

"It will be as if, in place of the stars, I had given you a great number of little bells that knew how to laugh . . ." -Antoine de Saint-Exupery, The Little Prince