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In
Memory of Pepper
7/16/1995
- 9/25/2008
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| Pepper
was a pure-bred English cocker spaniel. Melissa and Larry
adopted her in
August of 2006 from Buffalo Pugs and Small Breeds Rescue, to be a
companion for
Henry. Pepper had been neglected for some time, but after
some surgery,
she was getting along pretty well. She was almost completely
deaf and was
blind in one eye. (The other one didn't work much, either.)
She had had
most of her top teeth removed, but could still manage her treats with
gusto! |
| She
loved to sleep in her bed, occasionally waking up to sniff around, or
take a
drink. When we lived in a retirement home, she'd race Henry
to the office
and man her station just outside the office door. Once we
started
traveling, she LOVED to sleep out in the sunshine outside the rig on a
sunny
day and go for walks. She wasn't into playing, and cuddling
was not high
up on her list, but she sure was a good snorer! And she loved
her mommy
and daddy. Probably the thing she liked best was going for
rides in the
car in her crate, and she loved meeting people and being onstage as
part of One
More Time's show. Whenever she was taken out of the house and let run,
she
would undoubtedly head for the van and do her "circle of happiness",
running around in clockwise circles, with tail wagging faster than a
hummingbird's wings. |
| As
she got older, her circles became slower, her eyesight got poorer, and
she
started to have seizures. Because she did not respond to
epilepsy
medication, it was suspected that the seizures were caused by a tumor
on her
brain. (She had had several other tumors removed from her
body over her
last two years.) Larry and Melissa are very grateful for the
two years
they got to spend with Pepper, and will miss their sweet "Girlie Girl" very much. |