The Urban Pantheist

The grief is very fresh as we said goodbye to Maggie yesterday. She had a mast cell tumor and it spread to her central nervous system. We eased her to final sleep outside on the grass on a beautiful fall day. If you've been following this blog for a long time you know how important she was to us, if not, here's a little gallery of memories.

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Alexis and I took our rental dog around the neighborhood.

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The funnest thing is when Stevie Wonder and Diana Ross are in the exact same position.
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I looked up from my puppy minding duties to find that Diana Ross was missing! After some searching, I discovered her sleeping in the slim space underneath our propane grill.


Then Stevie Wonder saw me laying on the ground and had to come over and get involved.

We had a brief one night engagement with Calvin, a nervous goofy dog a little older than our usual fosters. Charlie got along with him pretty well, but Maggie took an instant dislike to him.


After several hours of solicitous play bowing, Maggie decided she liked him and wanted to play with him. After his real foster picked him up, Maggie was looking for him and acting like she wanted to play.

e briefly had 2 puppies in the house--our own foster Angel Pecan and his sister Macadamia ("Big Mac")

Angel Pecan, totally sacked out.

Sunday was all about the new foster puppy "Pecan" (I call him Angel Pecan) and the many friends that came over to see him!
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Now that the house is finally puppy-free for a while, the big dogs have been hanging out with us in the kitchen more. They enjoy cramming themselves into the tiny dog beds.