We said 'Goodbye' to our precious Gracie. This post might be therapy for me, and it might convince people that the 'just a dog' is not true. Ok, its a record of Gracie's short life for me, and those who loved her.
How it began?? On Valentine day 2010 we visited the Lied shelter in Las Vegas. Some one dumped a ball of fur in my lap and said 'you will love her'. They were so right! Precious and Yummy. I said that to her everyday. And she is.
She is almost all white at 8 weeks old.
Too funny. I repeat this everyday for 8 years!
We had the pool so we set up temporary fence for early morning training. This is where the 'precious & yummy' started. I would praise her after she finished, and carry her in the house at 3:am. She always tried to jump out of my arms!
Still 2010. She started turning in to a black dog! Al is nuts about her. Gracie and I in 2010 in the picture below. Gracie & Al.
A year old.
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Ornery! |
Gracie has a ton of play things including her food dish which she treats like a skateboard. Hilarious to watch! The other big deal is "now" her attention getter. She plays 'roll over, kick her legs straight out, and growl, (or talk), and stop long enough to see if we are looking. Looks around, does the 'roll over' until we acknowledge her. Then when we "your soooo cute", its time for a treat! She performed for us.
Gracie & Zoeie in 2013
A rollover! Here we go!!
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| Actually she is looking to see if someone is paying attention. This 'rollover' is 2016. Be happy I didn't pick one for each year of her life! |
When I say we laughed everyday for eight years, I wasn't kidding! Besides the antics with the food dish & the 'rollovers' she had routines. One was when Al got home from work....I mean AS SOON as he walked in the door at 4:00pm she wanted to go outdoors with him! Wow, when he picked up that I pad, she was wiggling and running for the door! She made sure he was following her too!!
One more Goofy thing is when we are in the bathroom she puts her squeak toys ( she has 18 & sometimes I think she can pick them out by name or color), yeah she puts them in the bathtub and barks till you get them out & throw them. Or one more thing, Al throws the ball inside the tub & she tries to chase it.
These were 2017
2016
Everyone is goofy! Gracie looks trapped!
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Always where we are 2017 |
I will continue my "Gracie" story in the next post. I might be shorter than this one...maybe. I used to say I could wallpaper the house with pictures of Gracie!
Thanks for looking
Mary
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