Re: [PyrNet-L] CHAT: Amy, goodbye good friend

["Donna Coffman" <dcoffman@erols.com>]

So very sorry Kim to learn of the loss of such a wonderful dog.  I know we
miss some more than others, and those are the ones that we have such
wonderful memories of.  They add so much to our lives and they are content
with so very little. I feel very fortunate to have Amy's daugther who
displays the same wonderful attributes that you described so well.
Donna


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> From: JK Lasley <jklasley@flash.net>
> To: pry net list <pyrnet-l@gamerz.net>
> Subject: [PyrNet-L] CHAT: Amy, goodbye good friend
> Date: Sunday, February 14, 1999 3:40 AM
> 
> Today I lost a good friend, and family member, her name is Amy. Her
> registered name is Mistry's Amaretto Mist, but not many knew her by her
> by that name. She was 10 1/2 years old and was born at my home as was
> her mother, grandma, and grandpa. I am sitting here the kids and husband
> are in bed and I can not sleep and I am thinking of Amy.
> 
> She wasn't a show dog, Amy did not like the dog shows. She left the
> showing to her littermates Brandy and Huggy and the other dogs in the
> yard over the years. So instead she stayed at home and was my friend and
> companion. Many of you know that I have alot of pyrs, 2 pyrenean
> sheperds and a continuous stream of rescue dogs that come through my
> home, but yet when one dies I have lost  a friend and family member. It
> never gets any easier.
> 
> Amy never jumped on anyone, she would come and sit at your side, and paw
> at you or nuzzle your hand when you stopped petting her (like most
> pyrs). When my kids were born, they became the focus of Amy's attention.
> From the time that they were baby's in carriers until now (they are 3 &
> 6), whenever the kids are outside she is right there beside them. At
> bedtime Amy, her sister Brandy and Fanny all  sleep in bed with the
> kids. They knew when the kids put on their pajamas that it was time for
> bed and would go into the bedroom and be waiting on the kid's beds.
> Krysta would say that she always had good dreams when the dogs sleep in
> her room, and wasn't afraid when she heard the coyotes howling in the
> distance outside during the night.
> 
> I remember when  Krysta was about 1 1/2 years old we were all outside,
> her playing and me picking up poop (something  we all do <g>). I turned
> around and there was Krysta and Amy by the water bucket. Amy laying down
> and Krysta with her little cup filling it with dirt and carefully
> pouring it on Amy's back, Amy mind you not complaining one bit. I told
> her not to do that to Amy and Amy got up and walked away. I turned
> around a few minutes later to find Amy was back laying down and getting
> her "dirt bath" as Krysta says. What could I do, they were both enjoying
> themselves. Needless to say a few minutes later that little cup was
> going into the water bucket  and carefully pouring water onto Amy's
> back, and Krysta saying "I have to wash off the dirt". I swear Amy was
> smiling and as happy as she could be. I remember thinking, this is what
> pyrs are all about, taking care of the kids, running the fence lines of
> the property when something was out there, being part of the family, and
> that was why I have and breed these dogs.
> 
> Several of my friend's toddlers through the years, and my own, would be
> walking and alittle unsteady on their feet, Amy would be right their
> beside them and if they started to fall she would lean close to the
> toddler and they would grab hold of her coat and steady themselves so as
> not to fall.
> 
> Amy was buried on our property next to her brother, aunt,  mom, grandma.
> My husband came home with roses for his girls today. One for me, one for
> each of our 2 daughters and 1 for Amy. The girls went and laid the rose
> out for Amy and said they would look in the sky tonight for her. They
> found her up in the sky tonight and  told me that she is the big star at
> the end of the big dipper.
> 
> Goodbye good friend,
> 
> Kim Lasley
> Mistry
> Ramona, Ca.
> 
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