StrayDogHeaven

In Loving Memory

Stevie has joined Reggie in Heaven 06-14-2008 at 1140hrs

She will always be "Queen of the House"

Now she will be "Queen of the Clouds"

I will love & miss you always Stevie Girl

Stevie's Medical 05-21-2008

My heart breaks as I tell you this, Stevie has been diagnosed with bone cancer.  Her back left leg has a tumor on the bone that is eating away at it. The specialist said we could amputate her leg, put her through Chemo, and her chances of survival were good, adding about 6 months to 2 years to her life.  This is no guarantee. 

 I can't  find it in my heart to be so selfish to try to keep her with us for "maybe" another 6 months to 2 years.  She is 14 years old, and the recovery on this type of treatment would be hard on her.  She is so scared and upset everytime we take her to the vet anyway,  I just want her to be happy and carefree the last days of her life and be at home.    

I know Stevie will brighten the heavens with her presence, and will be the queen of her territory when she makes it there, she has and always will be a special little lady,  one of God's many gifts to me in life. 

Now what lays heavy on my heart is the right time to let her go.........

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Stevie is a beautiful girl.  She was rescued from the Baytown Animal Shelter September 5th 1995.  She has ruled the house for the last 8 years.  One day recently I watched a program on The Animal Planet channel and saw a show called "Breed All About It" and it featured Anatolian Shepherds.  After seeing this program I am sure Stevie has to have some of this breed in her. 

Stevie is pretty much the boss around the house when it comes to the other girls.  There have been a few bad fights with Cassie and Suzie that resulted in some expensive vet bills, but overall everyone gets along.  We have learned not to let her and Cassie out together, since those have been the most vicious fights that left me with some pretty frazzled nerves.  

I located Stevie at the animal control facility while I was down there adopting a rottweiler that someone had turned in over the weekend as being vicious.  I had the opportunity to spend 30 minutes with the rottweiler at work while animal control came out to get her, and there wasn't a vicious bone in her body.  So after the usual waiting period I went down to get the rottweiler and there was beautiful little (at the time she was little) Stevie.  She had just been picked up wandering the streets.  I again waited for the time limit to be up on her and went down and adopted her. 

Here is a happy twist to the rottweiler.

She went home with me and I lived about 20 miles from where she had been picked up.  A neighbor of mine had been missing one of her rottweilers for about 2 months.  I took the one I had just adopted down to her, to see if she would like to have her, and it was discovered that it was probably her dog.  The dog immediately took to her, and it seemed it was already bonded with her other dog.  It was a happy ending, both for the rottweiler and my Stevie.