Your Seventh birthday...Happy Birthday sweet Rio

Tomorrow you turn seven. Its unbelievable that we have made it this far. Thank God the vets have been proven wrong and you have made it past five. They told me to give you back, due to your kidneys you would only give me heart break. Little did they know the fight inside of you or your inner strength. You have surpassed all expectations and I am so thankful I did not listen to them. I told them our journey began the first time you looked into my eyes. It was love for me instantly. It took time for you to trust me and trust your new home. I have no idea what you went through before you became a part of my life. I gave you my heart that first day and our bond has grown and our love has no limits. We fight together sweet boy. On your special day, I give you my heart and a promise that as long as you fight, as long as you are happy we will continue this journey. Who knows how long we will have but each day I have with you I am so very blessed. I love you my sweet Rio. You are an inspiration to me each and every day and I thank you for sharing your life with me. Happy Birthday baby boy. I love you to the moon and back and then some. Your mommy....

I think Dogster made a boo boo..Lexey is DOTD..Not in My- house...

How in the world did that happen. I never have in my dog life could have imagined they would make my pesky sister DOTD. I know it has to be some kind of mix up. I bet it was another Lexey Exey they were thinking about. She already thought she was a princess. Now you ought to see how she is carrying on. OK..she is pretty for a girl dog. She does make mommy laugh alot with all her antics. Thats why she belongs in the NPC. She is a mess. So my question is...what was Dogster THINKING??? Congrats to my sister...I guess....me still thinks it was a mistake. Rio...........Hey Dogster...let me know if it was a mistake. I bet it was. BOL!!!!

It was a wonderful day Christmas Morning 2008

Rio and I sometimes have not so good days. Christmas morning was a wonderful day. Almost like a Christmas miracle. My boy was so happy and healthy and almost like a normal dog. No worries that morning. Just him and I enjoying life and each other. I truly believe God knew we needed a day like that one. Rio played with his new squeaker Ruddy and enjoyed his snuggle time with mom. Him and I both knew it was a special day. One that his mommy will remember on the not so good ones that lie ahead for us. Rio is a joy and he makes each day we have together a special day. When we have a healthy day we rejoice and give thanks. So on this day, I thank all that have prayed for my boy and chanted each day for his health. It worked Christmas morning. It was a day like no other and one that will remain in my heart forever. I hope each dogster and family had a special day like Rio and I did. I also pray for every dogster pup to have a healthy and happy year to come. Wuff, Rio and Mommy Pat

Thanksgiving 2008

This Thanksgiving mommy says we are grateful for so many things. We are grateful for the friendships we have made on Dogster and we are blessed to have each of you in our lives. Many times as we celebrate the holidays we forget that so many have sadness and pain during this time of year. We know that pain and we send our love and paw hugs to each of you. Losing one that you love is the hardest thing in life to face and we know many of you have gone through and are going through that pain of loss right now. We celebrate the lives of those that have left us. Each were special and each took a little piece of our hearts with them. We miss you but you touched our hearts and graced our lifes with your joy, love and kindness and because of that you will always be a part of our hearts. Even through the tears we are grateful for having you in our lives and we thank you.
So me has made it to another Thanksgiving. Its been up and down this year and there were days mommy thought she might lose me but through the grace of God and your love me is still here to celebrate another Thanksgiving with my mommy. How blessed we are to still have each other to hug and to share this years blessings!! From our heart and homes to yours: Happy Thanksgiving and with the grace of God me will still be here next year to share another turkey leg with each of you. Me wuffs each of you so much. Rio and Mommy Pat

Happy Birthday Beautiful Rio...

Sweet Baby boy. We made it. Another miracle year. How can I ever thank you for blessing my life. You have taught me more about courage, and strength and dignity than any other. Each day we share is a miracle day. When I first brought you home and into my heart..the vet said...you may only have five years. I knew it was a possibility that your life would run short and that my heart would break...but here you are...NOW SIX and still fighting to stay with me. Your will to live is beyond any that my vet has seen. You are such a fighter and such a strong willed baby boy. So on this Sixth birthday sweet Rio...what can I give to you?? You have my heart and all my love. So what I wish for, is more of a wish for me....I want another six years baby boy. I want your kidney disease to go away and I want you to have nothing but pure and utter happiness for the rest of your life. I give to you this promise....As long as you want to fight, as long as your will to live remains strong...I will do everything in my power to make sure you make it those six more years. I love you to the moon and back and then some. You are and will always be mommys precious baby boy. Happy Birthday my little man....and please..lets have many more to share together. I love you....Mommy Pat

Mommys tears on my fur...

I sometimes think that the tears from mommy are what makes me fight so hard. Last week was a bad week for the Rio. Me creatinine was sky high and I would not eat or drink anything. I was at the vets and I heard her telling mommy that if things did not change it might be time. TIME FOR WHAT??? The next thing I know my fur was all wet and mommy was hugging me so tight. She whispered in my ear to fight hard for her. She told me she would fight for me as long as I wanted to fight this dreaded disease. Polycystic Kidneys...go figure. A beautiful boy doggie with stinking cyst in his kidneys. Must be a horrible joke coz it is not funny having these stinking kidneys. So more IV fluids, more shots, more vitamins...more tears from mommy. I promised her to tell her if I wanted to leave...but the Rio is not through protecting mommy so me has to STAY and Fight these things. So me is better this week. The fur is dry again...I still see signs of worry on mommys face but she just pretends everything is OK and plays with me but sometimes....I feel wet drops on me fur. Those drops make me fight even harder coz me never ever wants to make my mommy cry so hard that its like Rio just got a bath. EECKKKKKKKKKKk me hates tear baths. So keep on chanting my friends and pray hard that the POTP continues to work. Me wuffs you all so much and me hopes everyone is safe and happy and full of Turkey. Wuff, Rio

Me hears all your chants and prayers

Sometimes you think today might be the day me has to leave mommy, but mommy keeps fighting hard for me so because I love her so much me keeps fighting for her. Somedays are not good, but mommy hugs me and gives me fluids and makes me feel all better. Today is a good day. Me ran and played today and my squeaker was so loud mommy had to shhhhhhhh me so she could talk on the phone. Thats when mommy smiles...when I feel so good that I play with my squeakers. So to all of you who pray for me and chant for me...I want to send you my wuff today and always and I want to thank you for caring so much about a wittle ole bi red wiggle butt who loves to dance under the stars and wiggle butt dance just for all of you. My love and my heart to you always. Rio..........

The Wrath of Mother Nature...Pray for those who have lost- everything

We live in Kansas. Now Kansas has always been known for the changing weather. One day it is beautiful, the sun is out, the birds are singing, the squrrels are bothering Lexey...and then the sky becomes dark and the sky is filled with lightening and thunder booms. I am totally afraid of storms. Mommy has never figured out what happened in my past to make me so afraid..but I am. Friday...tragedy struck Kansas. A whole town, a community of people, businesses, farms, pets, horses, cows, wiped out in seconds. Yes they knew it was coming. The fury of mother nature. A tornado over a mile wide struck and it struck with vengence. Nothing left..but rubble and debrie. People left in shock, injured and dying. Animals, some never to be found. Cows and horses...gone. Doggies like me, trying to find home. But home is gone. There is nothing to go home to. Where are my mommy and daddy, the look in their eyes plead...someone help me. The rescue people arrive, people are pulled to safety and taken to hospitals, and yes...kind people would take the little doggies and help them until their owners could be found. How do you begin to understand the loss? How do these people pick up and go on? Where do they go?? And ...where are the cows and horses? Still no where to be found.
So today, if you wake up and your bones hurt, your feeling sorry for yourself, or you just wonder what your day may bring: Think of those that have lost everything. Pray for those that are suffering and lost...or gone forever. Count yourself blessed today, because your world has not changed and you can still hear the birds sing, and listen to your kitty meow or your doggie bark..and you can look around and see your home. So many now, can not.
I now know why I am afraid of storms. What would happen to mommy and me and Lexey and our kittys if a storm like that came upon us. We can only pray that we could ride it out and make it through...with our lives. Today we offer our prayers to those that lost everything. We offer our prayers of hope and love to those that feel no hope. We send our blessings to those that have been hurt and pray for their recovery. We pray that all the animals find their mommys and daddys. We pray that the town can rebuild and that these people can start over...we offer our paws to all to build a chain of love and prayers..to send to those that now have nothing!! Greensburg Kansas, wiped off the map on May 4th, 2007!! God bless each of you. May God protect you and comfort you during this horrible time. Rio, wiping his eyes, and praying hard for everyone touched by these storms.

Somethings wrong...Mommys getting worried again...

I have had mommy up all night long. I sleep for a wittle while and then I get her up by crying and needing to go outside. I hate having accidents in the house so I cry and wake her up. Last night I did this four times. Now, I am a boy doggie and sure me needs to pee but somethings not right. How come I have had to go so often? I have been drinking so much water and thats why and drinking water is good for my kidneys but mommy is worried that I am going into kidney failure again. So it looks like If I do this again tonight I will be going to the emergency vet tomorrow. Mommy takes no chances when it comes to her RIO baby boy. Me turned five and that was quite a celebration. So I proved the vet wrong and me is still here. So keep your paws crossed that this was a one night thing..but mommy says something is not right...and I am off to drink another whole bowl of water. These are two gallon bowls and I drink almost all of it at one sitting so mommy fills them again but I really should not be drinking this much. Pray hard...me just can not get sick. There has been to much sadness on this board this month and me is refusing to be sick. Thanks for the chants and prayers. Me wuffs you all. Rio

The loss of a friend...The littliest one with the biggest- heart...Joker...

Sometimes there just are no words that can express the pain and grief in a wittle dogs heart. Mine is totally broken. So many beautiful friends have left and me does not understand why. We give our hearts and we grow to love all of you so much that when one of you gets sick, we worry and fret, we pace and pray. We hold on to each word and look for any message to see how you are. Then, the bottom falls out from underneath us and our hearts break and our eyes weep water and they just keep flowing and flowing like rivers growing into big ole oceans because our hearts hurt so much. Joker our wittliest friend, left us and we are beyond grief. He deserved a longer life and we are angry and mad. We want to blame something or someone and we want him back. We also know, if we are feeling so horrible, what is wittle Jokers family feeling? We can only imagine the horror and grief they are going through. So we must put our pain aside for now and be there to honor Joker and show his family how much we care about each of them too. We offer our hearts to you Mickey, Dallas, Sassy Girl, Rascal and Mommy Regina. We send you our love and our prayers that God grant you peace of heart and the joy of remembering your wittle guy the way he would want you to remember him. Full of mischief and love. Full of the wonder of puppy hood and the knowledge that he was so very lucky to have been loved by each of you. We will miss our wittle Joker but he will never be forgotten. He touched our hearts and gave us such joy. We honor him with our love and we hope you know how grateful we are to have been part of his extended family. Farewell for now little Joker. I hope Sophie wrapped her wings around you and made your landing safe and soft. I know you have her wrapped around her big ole paw and that you and her are having the grandest of times hunting for squirrels and chasing butterflys. Rest well sweet one. Your journey here was short but the legacy you left to each of us will live on forever. Wuff and tears and heart sadness...I miss you already little one. Rio....wiping tears and shaking his head ...not wanting to believe his little friend has left. We are so very sorry.