lola-pod is the cutest/best dog ever.

Earlswood, West Midlands, UK, June 2019

My handsome boy!

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Someone gave me a plastic dog toy that looks like a bottle of beer. For some reason, I think it's absolutely hilarious to watch Lucy with it. This is a screen capture from a video:

youtu.be/3JMEkX-BKcY

And let me say again: Lucy is a rescue from Baja California. A rescue group brought her from there to So Cal, and when she wasn't adopted there, she was brought by another group to Oregon, and we adopted her, just after Christmas 2014, via PetSmart in Beaverton. Most chain pet stores in the USA show rescued dogs, and the volunteers that rescue and care for these dogs rack up thousands of dollars in expenses. Don't complain about the cost - hand the money over and take that beautiful dog home!

Kahn, Etta & Athena at the dog park

No hurry.....

buddy 7yrs old, Bell 7 months

Cilla's Petfinder Listing from summer 2011

www.petfinder.com/petdetail/20167242?rvp=1

Our Bullies enjoying a walk.

I didn't take this one of her, but I love it all the same...photoshopped a little by me. This is the quintessential Emma photo.

brindle

My baby needs our prayers tonight. He's been coughing a lot lately so he went to the vet yesterday. I got a phone call tonight and the vet thinks he may have a cancerous tumor somewhere and that it has spread to his lungs. I hate to think the worst but this has been a really crappy year for me and I don't want to lose my best friend of the last 6 years.

My brother lost his dog Louie a few weeks ago...I posted a picture of him. I don't know if I neglected to mention that he ran off with a friend. We still have yet to find her...she's micro chipped and we are hoping for the best still...but we don't know what to think. It's terrible that we rescued her from the abuse situation she was in and nursed her back to health just to have no say in what happens to her now, you know?

The lyrics [if you even noticed them, view large to make sense of things] above are from Alicia Keys Song "Goodbye" Morbid, I know, but it was stuck in my head [ironically] the day they found Louie hit and the day after...And does somewhat describe how it's hard to just leave have to just accept the fact that we've done all we can to find her and now we just have to leave it up to time.

"How do you find the words

To say goodbye?

When your heart don't have the heart

to say...To say goodbye

Is this the end? are you sure?

How should you know when you've never been here before?

It's so hard... to just let go

When this is the one and only love I've ever known."

Many people in Forest Grove, Oregon put out water bowls for pets. This is one of Lucy's favorites for a drink. But I had to remove the layer of ice on the top first.