<table cellspacing="0" cellpadding="0" border="0" ><tr><td valign="top" style="font: inherit;"><DIV>Sadly I must report that sweet Shelby has passed to the Rainbow Bridge this afternoon. The new set of x-rays showed that both tumors had doubled in size since her surgery last Tuesday. The one was crowding out her lungs and the other was closing off the veins near the back end so she was basically going to be paralyzed soon. We're going to miss her, but I know she's playing on the hillside with her buddies that passed before her. I'm sure Dottie and Gus have welcomed her presence with beautiful howls.</DIV>
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<DIV>Janet</DIV>
<DIV>RB Hounds: Gus 1/27/09; Dottie 2/18/09 & Shelby 10/19/09</DIV></td></tr></table><br>