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<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><FONT face=Calibri color=#000000 size=3>Although not unexpected, it is with a very heavy heart that I tell you that my sweet Priscilla Marie went to join her pack in the sky.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>As some of you know she was a senior girl, being at least 13 and maybe closer to 15, her health had been failing and I knew it was simply a matter of time. She seemed to have rallied and was very spritely over the weekend and earlier in the week. However, last night when I got home, she had had several accidents and needed help getting outside.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>She was even too weak in the back end to stand up to pee.</FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face=Calibri>I had some cooked chicken breast so I hand fed that to her – she wouldn’t eat it on her own – and just held her.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I was up with her most of the night.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>She had several bouts of diarrhea and couldn’t get out of her own way.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I kept her cleaned up, but I now know it’s time for me to let her go. I think she rallied herself and stayed until I could start to get over Olivia’s death, but I think she gave me all she could give.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><FONT size=3><FONT color=#000000><FONT face=Calibri>By the time it was time to go, I had to borrow a stretcher from my vet.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I think she rather enjoyed that – picture Cleopatra on her great barge.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Her strength was spent, but being Pris, her tail wagged to the last.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>That’s the thing most folks remember about Pris – basically if she was awake, her tail was wagging.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And she took great pleasure in the simple things of life.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Her favorite place on earth (other than snuggled on the big bed with me and the rest of her pack) was the beach.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>She’d smell the ocean, pop her head through the bucket seats looking at me eagerly wagging her tail.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And when I’d say “Yes, Pris we’re going to the beach,” she’d begin that happy dance, most only reserve for food, in the back of the jeep.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>And porch swings … my lord how she loved porch swings.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>She’d get people to help her up and then push the swing back and forth.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>She loved that so much.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>She was simply the happiest and sweetest dog that ever lived.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN></FONT></FONT></FONT></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><FONT face=Calibri color=#000000 size=3>And tough – my god she was tough – she made it through being dumped on a logging road 22.5 pounds overweight with a still oozing C-section scar, a run in with and bout of </FONT><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">Campylobacter, pancreatitis, and a broken back.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>In the end it was a nasty cancer and failing liver that got to her – at least that’s what the vets tell me.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>Personally, I think she just missed Oliver (her first puppy – regardless of the fact that she didn’t give birth to him) and Olivia (the only puppy Abby ever let her keep).<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN><?xml:namespace prefix = o ns = "urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" /><o:p></o:p></SPAN></P>
<P class=MsoNormal style="MARGIN: 0in 0in 10pt"><SPAN style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: black; LINE-HEIGHT: 115%; FONT-FAMILY: 'Arial','sans-serif'">She didn’t even last until the vet had put all of the euthanasia solution in.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>I was sitting next to her, stroking her and telling her it was okay to go.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>She had her head in my hand.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>She rubbed her chin against the palm of my hand, gave a deep sigh and one last wag of her tail and was gone. God speed Prissy Marie.<SPAN style="mso-spacerun: yes"> </SPAN>You take care of everyone until mommy joins you.</SPAN></P>
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