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 onto the floor at his feet for him to belly rub her when she isn’t busy trying to jump into his lap while he is standing up … she has barely missed taking out his eye a couple times in her excitement and the two of them being the wrong height for all this jumping of hers all over him.
Miss Gabby loved June Bugs … she ate them until she could find no more and even though she could not do much jumping … she would jump to catch / eat
June Bugs and she would drive me berserk on wanting outside to eat June Bugs continuously during June Bug season all nite long while being in the house. I would call & complain to my daughter about her dog not letting me get anything done so she could go outside & eat June Bugs and my daughter would laugh and laugh … at me and at her dog.
Well … it is June Bug season here now … I noticed because Sugar Plum is busy chasing them and playing with them and eating them. Then the other nite (it was dark except for the patio light) … she was pawing at one playing with it on the patio bricks and suddenly it bounced up in the air and landed on her nose – she bounced in the air pawing at her nose and the bug was still there on her nose – she landed back on the patio and continued bouncing & pawing and the bug was still there – it was like watching the bareback bronc riders at the rodeo … from where I was standing out on the patio … I could see the bug outlined perfectly on her nose the entire time she was bouncing & pawing at it … it didn’t take long for her to dislodge the June Bug from her nose but it felt like time stood still for a bit while this played out.
I laughed til I cried and then I laughed some more – then I called my daughter to tell her about it and she laughed too. Sugar Plum just looked at me laughing at her and went back to chasing June Bugs.
I could just hear Gabs in Doggie Heaven laughing at me and barking out “Ya thought you were done with June Bugs … Ha Ha Ha … you’re not!” and looking very pleased with herself.
These pictures were taken of Miss Gabby not long before she left us … I don’t have the pictures of Sugar Plum developed yet … I plan to drop them off this week-end.
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