Found old pictures *sniffle*

[MimzMum]

One of my favorites is missing from this roll, no idea where the negatives are. I am so disorganized it stinks. I really want to find the rest of these. I’d tucked this set into a box in my son’s room. I can only hope the rest are still somewhere inside the house, and not out in a storage shed getting rained/snowed/nibbled on….

Just wanted to share. Gosh he was beautiful. Only about 4 years old here….

And here’s Taiku, his son, only about 8 weeks old. He’s butted up against one of his sisters and you can barely see my daughter’s old dog, Willow, in the background.

I hand raised all of these pups from two weeks. Good memories.

I’ll have more up tomorrow of Dusty, and some of my cats…just don’t feel like adding them now.

[Monkeybun]

Such a pretty puppy! I’m not a huge dog fan, but I could so hug that one.

[LoveChaCha]

Very lovely.
Always in your heart Mimz.

[HatterBunny]

Such a beautiful dog!!!

[LittlePuffyTail]

Aw…sweet pics, Mimz.

[Andi]

I love big fluffy & spitz type faced dogs, I had a huskey growing up, so maybe that’s where it came from.
Shadows stunning, I’d hate to be in charge of grooming though LOL a job and a half for sure. How much did she weigh?

I’ve never had a small dog, but i want one, one day. I will treat it like a big dog though, and want someone who does agility. Our current pup (12 yr old diabetic & blind GSD/Lab/B Collie) loved Agility, but she’s retired now, and spends most her time sleeping and getting pushed around by a Degu and bunnies.

I look forward to more photos And good luck in your search for the others, you will probably come across them when u least expect it, thats the way it always is for me.

[Barbie]

Thanks for sharing Mimz. Those are great pictures. For some reason I never got a good idea of how fluffy Shadow was until now. He’s very handsome.

[RabbitPam]

They were very beautiful, MM.

How is life with the new puppy going? He seems so small compared to your former family.

[Sonn]

He was a gorgeous dog.

[MimzMum]

Thanks everyone for your kind words.

Yes, Shadow was a hard pet to groom. It would take me all day to get him completely free of his undercoat. Then most of the evening to thin and untangle his guard hair. During the summer, he usually needed shaving to be comfortable. His tail was the worst. It was always matted and had to be shaved down to skin. It looked so pathetic without it’s fur.

For the last year of his life, he was almost naked as he was completely body shaved for his first surgery to remove mast cell tumors on his ears, neck and left shoulder. Then the GDV surgery required another shave. I asked God to please let him live till his fur grew back in, but it never got as full and beautiful as it was in these pictures. Still…he died with most of his dignity intact.

Still miss him so…it seems like it will never get any easier, although I know it will dull to an absent ache. I guess I don’t want to forget him, no matter how painful. It reminds me that I have a four-legged child so dear to me waiting on the other side, that someday my own passing will not hurt as much as I used to fear it would.

Pam, Jenna is doing rather well actually. She went to town with us again today, a great rider in the car. ALWAYS lets you know when she has to potty and waits till you stop to do it (unlike poor Kitty, who is now outside again and it seems fighting with another cat in the neighborhood, she had a new scratch on her shoulder today *shakes head* ) although it got hot in the car today and she was uncomfortable. But she was so tolerant. Our big boys would’ve been foaming at the mouth to get out and we’d get dragged down the road.

A few more, if you would be so kind as to indulge me….

Dusty, Shadow’s mate, mother of the pups, back in 200:

In 2004, 3 years before she passed away:

Our old cat, Fuzzy (a.k.a. Latte) when he was just a baby…so precious! He looked so much like my Griffy cat…

Fuzzy and Mew (Tooey) when she was a kitten. They were joined at the hip. (Looks like it, literally, in this pic!)

Headlock! (ack!)

He was her male mother. When we brought her home, he was like, “For ME??? Oh, thankyouthankyouthankyou!”

Tooey and Fuzzy, singing opera…lolz…..

I was disappointed how dark these scans came out. I love digital photography so much better than the old 35 mm, which was how these were all taken.

[MimzMum]

Oops…meant to say that first picture was taken in 2000…not 200. DOH! *forehead slap*

[Monkeybun]

Was gonna say, you aren’t THAT old MM

Fuzzy and Tooey remind me of my kitties growing up, Jack and Bug. Jack was a good old man, was born in my mom’s closet when I was 8. When I was about 12, my mom’s boyfriend at the time brought home a little black manx kitten, that was Bug. Him and Jack became instant best buddies. They were always together, and Jack looked out for him like a big old mama cat. Jack was 28 pounds, Bug was maybe 5 lol. Both of them are gone now, Jack died a few years ago, and Bug.. well, my mom’s ex-bf (the one who gave her Bug) refused to let her take him when she went back to BC. He never did tell us what happened to little black Bug.

Anywho…. your fur family has been beautiful MM. Thats gonna be a whole lot of fuzzy hugs when you see them again

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