MM - Sorry for your loss. It always hurts when our friends are called home before we are. BTDT way too many times. I remember each and every one of them with fondness - hope you are blessed with the fond memories of Coal . . .

The first dog I had, Minnie, (I was about 2 1/2 years old) along with my cousin in @1954. She's been gone for over 50 years now and I still smile when I hear the name.
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Someday I hope to be the person my dogs think I am . . .
The only true cost of having a dog is its death.
Someone once said "a nation of sheep will beget a government of wolves."
Shiloh Sharps . . . there is no substitute.
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