Re: [pyrnet] The New Girl, photos, and Pyrsonal stories

["Susan Irving" <sirving@rogers.com>]

What a sweetheart!  And you have such a neat website too. Very enjoyable!

Susan , Jasmine and Seamus
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From: "David P Kintsfather Jr" <kintsfat@kutztown.edu>
To: <pyrnet-l@pyrnet.org>
Sent: Wednesday, March 06, 2002 10:26 PM
Subject: [pyrnet] The New Girl, photos, and Pyrsonal stories


> We lost our Great Pyrenees named Clondike a year ago in February at age
> 13.25.  She essentially won her 32 month fight with canine lymphoma,
> having been evaluated as still in remission a week before she had to be
> euthanized for complications of arthritis and old age.
>
> One month to the hour after we made that last trip to the vet with
> Clondike we left home to pick up a 3 1/2 year-old Pyr girl named Abigail
> to "foster" for a couple of weeks.  She stole our hearts in the first 24
> hours, but she is a real project dog.  She suffers from territorial
> aggression which we have managed with Prozac, lots of love, a little
> training and major socialization.  It took 6 months, but we eventually
> signed the papers and adopted the "Fuzzy Terrorist."
>
> She now stops strangers on the sidewalk and insists on being petted and on
> Monday she sat down in front of a house just as an elderly lady was coming
> down the steps.  The lady talked with my wife for a few minutes and then
> ended up petting Abigail.  She confessed she hadn't touched a dog in 2
> years after being attacked by (of all things) an Irish Setter.  The
> "Terror of Topton," however, engaged her in a real love fest.
>
> I maintain a web site called Penny Pyrbred's Web Page which is an
> electronic version of a regional club newsletter which I edit.  It has
> lots of photos of Clondike and the story of her lymphoma therapy.  What it
> hasn't had until tonight is any photos of Abigail.  I've just been too
> busy.
>
> Tonight I put up some photos of Abigail and also the last installment of
> Clondike's "My Life as a Rescue Dog" and the first installment authored by
> Abigail entitled "My Life as a Rescue Dog--Continued."
>
> All the new stuff is flagged on Penny's main page.  Check it out at:
>
> http://www.pyrbred.org
>
> I hope it will bring a few smiles.
>
> David (for Nancy, Abigail and Angel Clondike)
>
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