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"As time goes by"

Thinking of Angels

By the time my family joined Dogster, I'd been at the Bridge more than one year ... we looked for other Labradors to be my friends ... Labbie Daisy came to Rainbow Bridge four months before I became an angel. And Riley Marie crossed three days after me. And we found Nakai and Remy who came to the Bridge later in 2006.

~~ We started a remembrance in Bogart's diary, and now we remember & celebrate friends who became angels during the first half of 2008:

Iggy Grey Eagle ~~~ Gracie Jane ~~~ Arthur furever wiggling
Cpl Cledus K-Bar ~~~ Socks ~~~ Samuel Jacob
Baloo ~~~ Terri the Terror ~~~ Lucy Kitty
Snowbabie ~~~ BEEZER ~~~ RemoTheRed .
Each one beloved ... missed by their families~

It's a blessing for us to share photos & stories with all our friends. Sharing our joys and our losses has enriched our lives~ xoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxoxo

... our long list of angels will be continued ...

They sold the Jeep ...

See, I told them so! I told my family that I am always right there with them, even though I had to come to Rainbow bridge ... .
When I was about 5 years old, my family got a Jeep. O boy, I had fun riding in the Jeep, to the park and lots of fun places with my family! I could see out the windows even when I stayed sitting down (that's safer than standing in a moving vehicle). And it was no big deal that I got hair or dirt in the Jeep!

Well, they sold the Jeep lost month. ... But guess what? When they cleaned the interior, my family found a ton of my yellow HAIR ... hiding between the back seat and cargo area ... . Very sad remembrance for them ... but I was right there to turn those tears into smiles.

Now they drive a MINI Clubman and the seats are the same color as pup Rick. And in the future, it will be so much easier for Rick to get in & out of a MINI ... because I taught my family that us older, large-breed dogs can hurt our backends when trying to get into tall vehicles.

Fuvever home anniversary

See my new picture? My pal Daisy created this picture of me at the park just like the fall day in September, 1992, when I found my furever family.

This may seem like no big deal to yall young, digital-age pups~ people taking your picture every time you turn around ... no film to be developed ... instant results that you easily save to your computer file ... Let me tell yall, photography was a whole different world in 1992!!!

My family spent the last month searching through "old" photograph albums & negatives ... just looking for pictures of me, and Bogart, too ... In my puppy days, my family had a nice 35 mm film camera, that someone had trouble figuring out how to use-BOL! And then the lens broke ... So there are fewer than 20 pictures of me for all the years from my furever-home day 'til I was about 7 years old. And I was 10 years old by the time our family got a digital camera ...

Thank goodness for digital scanners! My family added several new old pictures to my page-YEA!

{hey pup Rick, you got a hundred pictures! and you haven't been in the family one year yet-BOL} ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Everypup: be sure to visit the Tribute to 9/11 Rescue Dogs, as posted in today's Dogster Dog Blog at http://dogblog.dogster.com/2008/09/11/tribute-to-911-rescue- dogs/ OR here's the original dogs in the news website from 2001.