Sargent the Great Dane
I just wanted to tell you Sargent died on friday. I took him to the vet for a distended abdomen and found out it was due to an enlarged heart. His heart was so large it was pushing on his spine and all his other internal organs. The fluid was backed up due to his heart not pumping correctly. He just had xrays a few months ago and his heart was fine. The vet said she has never seen a heart get that large that fast. It was the worst day of my life. The only comfort I had was the fact that he wasn't in any pain. A little discomfort but he was acting normally. I just thought you would want to know. Thank you for everything you did for him. Elizabeth

Pewter
Hi Catherine, as I promised I wanted to give you an update on Pewter. It is a very sad day here as with her diagnosis of FIP we did decide it was best to put her to sleep. As I'm sure you know there is no cure or treatment for it.The one up side to it all is the fact that I believe strongly it's not how long you live, but how well you live. We take solace in knowing that Pewters short life was filled with a great deal of love and that she was fortunate enough to have not been exposed to the many cruelties of life many of the animals at Judy's experience. She will be sorely missed here by all, especially Roxy. Please let Judy know about the FIP. I'm not sure if Pewter ever actually spent time at the shelter but I believe she had siblings so I don't know if you may wish to contact them so they can be aware there kitties could possibly develop it also. She is now with the rest of our family who has passed on in a garden in the back. It is a tradition with us to bury our pets with significant items they had while with us. We wrapped Pewter in her favorite doggie blanket you gave her and her toys from her Christmas stocking. God bless, Mark, Tara, Hannah, Roxy, Chloe, Bubbles, Snowy, and Jazz

Libby
Our precious baby girl - Libby. We adopted her from PRBJ in 2005 after she was rescued from New Orleans after Hurricane Katrina. She captured our hearts and our 2 boys at home let her come in and take over. She gave us 5 years of pure joy and we miss her dearly. In her honor we will adopt another girlie in need of a home. When we left the shelter with Libby you told us to "enjoy her" and that we did. She was the sweetest girl, wiggled her tail like crazy and howled for her morning Milkbone biscuit. We love and miss you Libby Lou. Sara & Jonathan S.

Nello

Jack
Jackie-boy was 7 1/2 years old. The funniest part about his beginning with us is that we moved down here in June 2003, we adopted Indy about 1 week in(not planned just stumbled on Pet Rescue by Judy in PetSmart Altamonte) Ian saw her, she was all white with toasted marshmallow color on her. We adopted her right then and there. :o) 2 weeks later, we go back to PetSmart and her brother, Jack was still there and unadopted. We look at him and Andy says 'Don't tell me...you want him too?' So, Jackie-boy became ours. We brought him home and he & Indy were so thrilled to see each other. Indy was the alpha of the relationship so everything was about her. He'd spend hours grooming her, cleaning her ears and her eyes and just loving her. Sometimes we'd have to tell him to stop because the slurping would just become too much. LOL! Jack didn't have a mean bone in his body, he was truly the most gentle creature ever. However, he did seem to have some issues with the UPS man. I can't tell you how many times we came home to find our vertical blinds looking like swiss cheese! I actually have a stock of replacement blinds! Levelor is going to miss Jack as well, I'm certain that their stock price will drop now that he is gone. He loved to go on long walks, he had a friend behind a fence that he would look for and walk really slowly near the yard to see if his friend would come to say Hi. I don't know what his friend's name is but so sweet that he was his friend and they barely knew each other. On Sunday(keep in mind that Jack passed on Monday,) we bought the 3 dogs doggie bagels from Einstein's. Indy didn't do anything with hers and neither did Sadie. I broke Jack's up for him because he didn't really care to eat hard things. However, he gathered up theirs while they were unattended and put them on his bed, like he was the king of the bagels. Very funny!