Heartbroken

Dixie
June 11, 2005-January 21, 2009

Today I am heartbroken and I will probably be heartbroken tomorrow too. Today I came home to find that my beloved "Dixie-Girl" had died. Dixie had been terribly, terribly sick for two months and yesterday I found out that she did not have cancer. I was elated. I thought she was on her way to recovery. I was waiting on her biopsy results to determine exactly what she had (the general consensus of two vets was that she had a really horrible case of Irritated Bowel Syndrome). I guess that her little body that had lost 30% of her body weight just couldn't take it anymore.

Right now I miss my dog. I miss her and my eyes are swollen from crying. I miss her and I have a horrible crying headache. I miss her and I see Roxie going all over the house looking for her friend. Dixie is the dog that I made sleep with me after I got divorced. She would try to sleep in the extra bedroom and I would MAKE her come sleep with me. She'd give me this look like I was pathetic. Even though she drove me crazy with her running around the neighborhood like a crazy dog she was MY crazy dog. I wouldn't have changed her personality for the world and I will never find another dog like her...nor would I want to.

This it is this image that I will miss the most. I have an ottoman right under the front window and Dixie would hop on that ottoman and watch me leave. And like clockwork she would be looking for me to come home.




Good Bye my Dixie-Girl, I love you and I will never forget you.

Witness Protection

I recently purchased my first SLR camera. It is the Canon EOS Digital Rebel XSi/450D and I LOVE it. Love, love, love it and I am sure I will love it even more when I know how to use it properly. My dogs have been subjected to countless photos. Countless. Well, let me be more honest, Dixie has been subjected to countless photos because she will let me photograph her. Roxie has let me take a couple but if the flash is on she is outta there. She is a blur in most of them or standing behind Dixie. It is like she doesn't want her likeness captured. She must be part Indian or in doggie witness protection.



You can actually see just how sick Dixie has been with IBS (Irritated Bowl Syndrome). I am NOT mistreating my dog. She just has been horribly, horribly sick.



I had to act like I was taking a picture of Dixie...