01/28/11

My wife Sandy and I are allowed to live here by all of our critters.  The first part of November 2006, we had

to make the difficult decision to part with her Sheltie named Sundown.  Sunny was well over 16 years

old.  It was not easy, but he is much better off now.

Next in line would be the German Shepherd --- Tippy.  I've had her for nearly seven years.  She is beginning

to slow down a bit, but that is probably most noticeable because of her son Zathras.  Zathras is all St Bernard!

He looks like a St Bernard, acts like the dog in the Beethoven movies, and is HUGE!!  His last trip to the vet

was when he was five months old.  He weighed in at 67 pounds!!  At 5 years old, he weighs 142 pounds!  He

dwarfs his 85 pound mother.

After that come the cats --- they are all OUTDOOR cats.  All five of them adopted us at various times.  One thing that I do know for sure about cats, they are liars!!!  You can feed those critters and an hour later they are all whining about how neglected and starving they are!!!