Aug 5 - Aug 7, 2013 REMEMBERING MAGGIE

It continues to rain - everyday, but we don't really feel like doing anything anyhow.  As many of you know, our beautiful Golden, Ms. Maggie Mae passed away on Monday morning, August 5th.  She came into our life in August, 2006 as a 2-year old foster dog.  She was in a pound in a small town and was to be euthanized the day she was "sprung."  She was very sick with heartworms, tape worms, ear infections, etc.  She was only supposed to stay with us long enough to get healthy and go onto the GRRMF adoption site.  Well, that didn't happen.  She was a special girl that found her way into our hearts.  She was such a sweetheart and everybody that met her loved her.  She had developed a chronic liver disease in her later years that finally took its toll on her and she had started to experience some side effects from her medications and lose a lot of weight.  This past weekend she refused to eat and became so weak.  Monday morning, she finally gave up and joined some of her friends at the Rainbow Bridge.  Here are some pictures from her years with us.  I am thinking about also making a separate blog of pictures just of her and will let you know when it is available.

She loved running thru the snow and wildflower fields in Colorado.  Sometimes she was able to do both on the same day.  As much as we miss her, I am sure she is running like the wind with no pain.  As one of my friends said to me, " If someone tells you, you can't die of a broken heart I would say yea you can.  A home turns back to a house without a dog."

MAGGIE MAE, A GENTLE SOUL

08/19/2004 - 08/05/2013

 

Aug 31, 2006, Medications & Rehab:

Nov 2006, Finally well enough to go to the dog park:

 July 2007, First trip to Colorado:

September 2008 Smokey Mtns:

 Campfire:

 Summer 2009 Colorado:

 

 Summer 2010 - Colorado:  

 

 

Summer 2011 - Colorado:

Chilling at home in Florida with her duck: 

 

 2012 - Back to the mountains:

 Sometimes her "peeps" shoes were the best smells:

December 2012 - Posing for the Christmas Letter Picture:

Feb 2013 - Meeting the newest grandchild:

 July 4, 2013 - Muffling the firework noise:

 July 2013 Just seemed colder in Colo this year:

 

 

 Those little paws left huge holes in our hearts.