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<blockquote data-quote="donna723" data-source="post: 276253" data-attributes="member: 1883"><p>Fran, your dogs are gorgeous! I am so glad that you got another pup, and that you got him through rescue. And now you'll be able to watch Darcy grow and blossom with all that TLC you're giving him. And I think it's a very good idea to get another younger one too. That way they can both learn the ropes from Cowboy and Darcy will have a playmate. I can imagine that Cowboy was very lonely to suddenly find himself an "only child".</p><p> </p><p>And I DO understand exactly how painful it is to lose one that you loved so much. I lost my first Boston, my sweet little Ms. Rudy, five years ago and I still get very emotional about it sometimes. She had been my constant companion for thirteen years, the one that grew up with my kids, and the one that was right by my side during some very hard times. She had survived breast cancer and a heart problem over the years, but in the end, she just sort of wound down like a clock. She died just a week before my daughters out-of-state wedding and it helped a little that we had so much going on at the time, but it really did hit me hard. The memories of her are still bitter/sweet but now I find myself more laughing to remember her antics and mischevious personality.</p><p> </p><p>I had gotten my second Boston, Ragan, when Rudy was eleven, so she was two when Rudy died and she missed her terribly. Ragan has a completely different personality than Rudy, very much her own little 'person', an individual in her own right, and I adore her! She's almost seven now, still bouncing off the wall with energy, still teasing and bratty. Then almost three years ago my little Ms. Katy came in to my life, a funny, chubby, toy-obsessed, constantly smiling girl, the friendliest dog on the planet! Katy is the one in my avatar. Katy is so scary-smart she amazes me sometimes and so goofy, she keeps me laughing. She will look me right in the eye and I can just see the intelligence burning in there - you can almost hear the little wheels turning! And now I don't know how I ever got along without her! Each one has been such a little individual. One dog will never 'replace' another but each one brings their own little gifts to the relationship and is loved and cherished in their own right.</p><p> </p><p>And my girls are doing just fine - thanks for asking. They've gotten over the 'trauma' of being boarded while I was in South Carolina for a week visiting the new baby. They 'board' at the home of the vet tech from their doctors office, the one I got Katy and Ragan from, so they suffered the 'trauma' of being constantly babied and played with for a week, running free in an outdoor exercise pen, and eating the $2 a can dog food I bought them to ease the pain! A funny thing ... Ragan had been using a smaller crate than the one Katy has and I had been meaning to buy her a bigger one for a long time, so yesterday I finally did it. I put it together, put her regular bedding in it, then put her in to let her try it out. She whined, she cried, she practically screamed! She must have associated the strange crate with being boarded and thought she was being shipped off again! So we talked and I explained to her that she wasn't going anywhere, this was her new <em>bigger</em> bedroom! A little bigger than Katy's even! Once she understood that it was <em>hers</em>, she was fine with it and she even goes in on her own now to nap, something she never did before with the smaller one! So now Katy is jealous, which suits Ragan just fine!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="donna723, post: 276253, member: 1883"] Fran, your dogs are gorgeous! I am so glad that you got another pup, and that you got him through rescue. And now you'll be able to watch Darcy grow and blossom with all that TLC you're giving him. And I think it's a very good idea to get another younger one too. That way they can both learn the ropes from Cowboy and Darcy will have a playmate. I can imagine that Cowboy was very lonely to suddenly find himself an "only child". And I DO understand exactly how painful it is to lose one that you loved so much. I lost my first Boston, my sweet little Ms. Rudy, five years ago and I still get very emotional about it sometimes. She had been my constant companion for thirteen years, the one that grew up with my kids, and the one that was right by my side during some very hard times. She had survived breast cancer and a heart problem over the years, but in the end, she just sort of wound down like a clock. She died just a week before my daughters out-of-state wedding and it helped a little that we had so much going on at the time, but it really did hit me hard. The memories of her are still bitter/sweet but now I find myself more laughing to remember her antics and mischevious personality. I had gotten my second Boston, Ragan, when Rudy was eleven, so she was two when Rudy died and she missed her terribly. Ragan has a completely different personality than Rudy, very much her own little 'person', an individual in her own right, and I adore her! She's almost seven now, still bouncing off the wall with energy, still teasing and bratty. Then almost three years ago my little Ms. Katy came in to my life, a funny, chubby, toy-obsessed, constantly smiling girl, the friendliest dog on the planet! Katy is the one in my avatar. Katy is so scary-smart she amazes me sometimes and so goofy, she keeps me laughing. She will look me right in the eye and I can just see the intelligence burning in there - you can almost hear the little wheels turning! And now I don't know how I ever got along without her! Each one has been such a little individual. One dog will never 'replace' another but each one brings their own little gifts to the relationship and is loved and cherished in their own right. And my girls are doing just fine - thanks for asking. They've gotten over the 'trauma' of being boarded while I was in South Carolina for a week visiting the new baby. They 'board' at the home of the vet tech from their doctors office, the one I got Katy and Ragan from, so they suffered the 'trauma' of being constantly babied and played with for a week, running free in an outdoor exercise pen, and eating the $2 a can dog food I bought them to ease the pain! A funny thing ... Ragan had been using a smaller crate than the one Katy has and I had been meaning to buy her a bigger one for a long time, so yesterday I finally did it. I put it together, put her regular bedding in it, then put her in to let her try it out. She whined, she cried, she practically screamed! She must have associated the strange crate with being boarded and thought she was being shipped off again! So we talked and I explained to her that she wasn't going anywhere, this was her new [I]bigger[/I] bedroom! A little bigger than Katy's even! Once she understood that it was [I]hers[/I], she was fine with it and she even goes in on her own now to nap, something she never did before with the smaller one! So now Katy is jealous, which suits Ragan just fine! [/QUOTE]
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