We had to put the family elderly very very very sick much beloved dog to sleep last November (Election Day even) and then I got a rescue puppy the first part of December who was thought to be about 8-10 months old then. She weighs about 40 pounds or so and is a little chubby looking – I haven’t gotten the pictures developed yet that I took.

Having this puppy has been VERY healing for our entire family …. me, my daughter and my grandson … we still boo-hoo a lot about missing Miss Gabby very much and we all look at Sugar Plum sometimes and just tell her … you are so much NOT Miss Gabby … yet she has a very special place of her very own with all of us too … I keep telling my daughter that she wants to be my grandson’s puppy – she literally adores him out of all proportion to the amount of time she sees him, which really isn’t that often.

Sugar Plum flings (yes, FLINGS) herself