[Dailydrool] Mariah ATB

[Marie28443 at aol.com]

Dawn of the West (Daphneyland) asked me today to  post her email of June 
1st for the Daily Drool family to read.  As you read  this, please keep in 
mind that Mariah went To The Bridge yesterday, June  2nd.  

Marie




Let me address the  Mariah issue as many had no idea....
It's so hard and I have not been able to  talk about it much, but it's time 
to talk - or maybe I just need to be able  to write it out.......most 
likely 
a tear warning, so be forewarned. I never  know where these writings will 
take me as I write from the heart, but I have  tears which is a fairly good 
sign that many reading this will cry along with  me.

Mariah is my personal hound. Old timers knew her as I adopted her so  long 
ago, after huge fires in the Ojai/Fillmore area found her as a puppy  
sitting in the middle of a highway over ran with fire in 2002. A good  
samaritan 
fireman literally drove his truck thru flame to scoop her up and  he took 
her 
home and looked for her family.
He of course couldn't find  the family and after a month I got email here 
that she was a "ruined dog".  Slept on the couch, stole food and knocked 
over 
garbage cans - lol. She was  a pup. For us hound people, we laugh at these 
antics - for non-scent hound  dog people sometimes it's not so cute. I have 
remained friends with them to  this day!

Mariah was named by a youth volunteer - Tiare. She was named  after 
Tiare's best friend - Mariah.
The irony of this is that the Mariah  she was named after is non other than 
Tia (Villalobos)' daughter - and Tia  is and has been a friend of many 
years. You've seen Mariah the human on  Pitbull's & Parollee's if your an 
Animal Planet person. Anyway, Tiare  fell in love with this pup and wanted 
to 
adopt her - but her mother would  not allow Mariah to live in the house. 
The 
simple solution was that I  adopted her, and she lived here and Tiare got 
to 
sleep over and spend time  with her special girl.

Mariah has been a healthy, healthy girl with the  exception of allergies 
for 
all of her life. Running the ranch has been her  greatest joy and she ran 
like the wind she is named for. Even now she puts  her head high and tail 
blazing she flaps those ears at a snails pace - my  girl.
Last summer she had a tumor open on her rear end - a hot spot that she  
chewed down to and caused an unknown cyst to burst and rupture and required 
 
emergency surgery. Dr. Kim removed a very strange mass from her rear that  
had been hidden in the dermis. Strange, strange. Pathology really did not  
specify what it could be - but it did not look cancerous.
Evidently it  was. Or perhaps it's completely unrelated, one can never know 
for  sure.

About 6 weeks ago, Mariah really started with runny stool, dietary  issues 
and weight loss - unexplained.
Meds were started, diet issues  addressed and some good days, and some bad 
days and the weight loss  increased.
It's cancer - but what kind no one knows. I've tried all the  tricks and 
voodoo, meds and ideas we can think of - no, chemo is not an  option. And 
so 
the day is fast approaching where I shall have to hold my  little girl, and 
send her to be with her big brother Barnaby who left last  year - so many 
of 
her friends now at the bridge.
She gets what she wants  - whatever I can think of and she'll eat. Her 
tail wags and she wants  bellyrubs but we're being very gentle. And we 
snuggle 
- a lot. More than she  wants to right now I know, but I just need to hold 
onto my baby girl for  another day - and it could be tomorrow - or the next 
day. 
I know there  are no miracles. 
I will be completely devastated so I warn everyone in  advance, this 
passing 
is not an easy one - not that any of them ever are. To  have lost Barnaby 
and Mariah a year apart - so many of our angels at the  bridge. I just want 
to hold on forever, and that's not the right thing to do  for her.
Her day is fast approaching and for those who have emailed in total  shock 
- 
I apologize.
It's been very hard. This is the first time I have  talked about it at all.

Look up at those amazing stars - and think good  thoughts for my baby girl 
Mariah. Ask for there to be a gentle breeze to  catch her amazing ears as 
she 
wings her way from my arms to the rainbow  bridge.
She has stolen hearts all over the country - Marie, your hugs have  been 
given and will continue to be given to the very end.

I may not  be emotional able to post her tribute after the fact - so I am 
posting it  now.

Dawn of the West - owned by Mariah