Fly Free Sammy

Our hearts are breaking....our good buddy Sammy has gone to the Rainbow Bridge.  We can't stop crying.  

Graphic by Zoolatry

We will be doing a memorial post for Sammy in the next couple of days.  Right now we hurt too much to put it together.

Please visit Sammy's blog to pay your condolences.  Click HERE to teleport over.

ManCat Monday

Well yesterday was Easter and when we got up we were really excited because we saw this.....

we were super excited because the Easter Bunny obviously stopped at our house during the night.

Guess what?  We STILL haven't opened our basket!!  Dad got to open this early in the morning.
Here I am encouraging him to open his basket and check out the goodies inside.....

Come on Dad...open it up!!!

Dad appears to be pleased with what the bunny brought him...

Mom had something from her childhood for dessert...it's little balls of fried pasty with honey and sprinkles and it's called Strufoli.  She loved it (although she paid for it afterwards)

We hope you had a super Easter....we HOPE we get to open our baskets today.

On a sad note, one of our special woofie friends Phantom crossed over the Bridge last Thursday.

Phantom and his fursibs have been pals of ours for years and we're really sad that he had to leave.  His blog is The Chronicle of Woos.  RIP Phantom...you will be missed.

Sad Tuesday - we lost a good woofie friend

We've replaced our original photo with this wonderful badge that KC posted on the Cat Blogosphere!

We recently lost a good woofie friend, Abby. Many of you will remember our post of Cousin Trooper and Abby that we did in 2009. Abby has had many health problems over the years, and it was finally her time to make the journey to the Bridge.

We would like to share a little more of Abby's story:

Abby was a Black and Tan Coonhound. Her Mom met a good friend of hers who was showing her Coonhound, Hannah at a local dog show. That led to Libby and Dazey, the 4th of July girls!

Libby and Dazey's Dad and Hannah got together and had a litter. One of them was Abby. Abby and Sluggo were the "picks" of the litter and went to the breeder. After a while, Abby's Mom's friend sensed something was wrong and drove across the state to rescue Abby and Sluggo In 1999 after Abby had been living with someone who had too many dogs Abby went back to her Mom's friend. She had already had a bath, but was still pretty sad looking when her new "Mom-to-be" met her and was a bag of bones with a dirty collar. She put her head on her new Mom's lap and didn't leave. Her Mom-to-be said no no no and left...perhaps to come back the next day. She did. Abby put her head on new Mom's lap, she went home with her, went right into the tub and that was the start of their wonderful journey.

One word for Abby...a couch potato. She loved the cooler weather, was curious about the beach, liked the big dogs...not so much the little ones. She loved to sample everything that her Mom was cooking and requested ice cubes with her water. :)

Everybody loved Abby. On holidays, she would come over to our part of the state and stay with Auntie El and Cousin Trooper. Cousin Trooper loved Abby! She was a sweet, quiet girl. She was so lucky to have found the perfect Mom who had the patience to work through so many of Abby's health issues and to give her such a wonderful life after such a rocky start. We know Mom Lynn will miss Abby but we also know that Abby will live on in her heart and in the hearts of those who knew her.

Mom put together this slideshow of Abby, we hope you enjoy it.