Zoe here coming to you from Chapel Hill:
With a very heavy heart, I want to let you know that Phaedra left my world on April 27, 2017 after a very brief illness. For reasons unknown, Phaedra went into kidney failure our last week on Sanibel. We rushed her home and she spent one night in the Triangle Veterinary Speciality Hospital. When we learned that nothing could be done to help her, she came home to spend her last day with the family who loved her with all their might and at the place she had known for 14 years. She spent the day being pampered and loved and then went peacefully across the Rainbow Bridge.
May Phaedra's memory always be for a blessing!
Phaedra will still be traveling by my side on every trip that I take with the folks. I am sure that she will find a way to "help" me get into trouble and to annoy me like she sometimes did. I am going to continue to write our blog, and she will just be my "ghost dog writer" who maybe encourages me to do things that scare me a bit - (she always did give me courage, you know)!
I loved Phaedra from the first time I saw her. She even let me chew on her with my sharp baby teeth! I want to give you a sample of the things we did together over my 9 years by her side, so keep looking if you want to see some of the places she took me to.
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| My new sister, Phaedra. She wasn't sure about me at first, but then she loved me to pieces forever after! Sometimes she'd look at Papa and Mama as if to say, "Can't we leave her by the side of the road?" |
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| Phae is thinking, who is this strange baby who sleeps and eats, and chases me. Lucky me to have a sister like her! |
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| Phae taught me some "Bad Habits" in Rocky Mountain National Park |
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| Dinner time snacks! We are so glad Papa is the cook in the family! |
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| Yummy 9th Birthday to Zoe |
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| Hiking around Bear Lake at RMNP but no bears! |
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Garden of the Gods? No, Garden of the Dogs in Colorado Springs, CO
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| Will it move? What is it? |
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| Where are we again? Are we lost? |
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| Not so sure I like swimming! |
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| Love those cool mountain days! |
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| Myrtle Beach sunset |
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| Who me? I didn't do anything! |
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| Happy Holidays! |
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| That was mine!!! What are you doing? |
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| This is perfect December weather, right? |
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| You're leaving us alone??? |
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| Papa always shares AND drops treats! |
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| Are we lost? Moses Cone Manor, Blue Ridge Parkway |
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| Guard dogs! GRRR! |
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| Phaedra: always up for a game! |
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| Spring time in Blowing Rock gave us flowers to smell along the way. |
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| Where did that Zoe go now? |
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| Yum! Birthday Yogurt at Zebra on Sanibel! 14 years young! |
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| Phae was too smart! She wouldn't go swimming in this COLD river with me at Rocky Mountain National Park! |
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| The shore of the Yellowstone River in Billings, MT and the only toy we have to chase is a rock! |
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| Roll on, River! Roll on... |
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| You want WHAT? |
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| Home at last! Phaedra's special spot where I said goodbye to the best sister anyone ever had! |
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You will always be by my side, Phaedra! We all loved you to the moon and back!
