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I can imagine my cocker cross Zulu adapting to baby carriage transport! - She may even like that very much! She is my oldest 16 going on 17 in the spring, and still feeling pretty good, with arthritis medications, she still plays. Off them, she is an old dog.

I am expecting, actually, for my Logan the Labrador to be dead some morning. He is 16, and will go first. He was doing pretty well up to this year, but I see him fading fast, and when he sleeps, I absolutely can't wake him up. He is sleeping that soundly. He is deaf, but it is more than that. He doesn't wake up sometimes even when I shake him. Reaching down to pet him each morning to see if he is still breathing is having an affect. It will not be such a surprise when he goes. He has had a good life.

We had a dachshund named Suzie; yes, after me, but it had originally belonged to friends before it came to us. When she was about 6, she developed that problem that doxies sometimes have where she became paralyzed from 'the waist' down. She wasn't unhappy, but when she was playing, she would drag herself around to the point that she was developing sores on her belly. We took her to the vet to see what could be done for her. We didn't want to put her down because she wasn't in any pain we could see other than the sores. The vet suggested a cart that was advertised in the back of one of his magazines. When my Daddy saw it cost about $300, he went out the the metal shop of the plant where he worked and asked them if they could make something akin to it. They created a frame on which we could hang a piece of an inner tube and which had wheels on the back. We'd put Suzie in it, her upper body was free to move so she could walk, and her back legs were suspended in mid air by the innertube and she rolled as she walked! The neighbors would all come out to see her as we passed when we took her for walks!

She died about a year after this paralysis; she crawled onto the metal bed of the dolly in Daddy's workshop one night and just went to sleep. She was such a cutie! Rosie's Fiona looks like one of Suzie's puppies. We named her Pumpkin because her litter arrived just before Halloween and she had that black and orange coloring!

I am expecting, actually, for my Logan the Labrador to be dead some morning. He is 16, and will go first.

My neighbor had a cat that was very old. One day I was sitting in my livingroom and I hear this shrieking like bloody murder! I ran out and met my neighbor running to my house hysterical. Apparenty the old kitty had died a natural death and my neighbor found her when she got in from work. I went in and looked while my neighbor waited in the drive and I fixed the cat up so it didn't look so bad (shut it's eyes and mouth) and brought my neighbor back in and encouraged her to basically say goodbye. She really composed herself after that and we took the kitty and buried it near our bench out in our garden. We planted calladiums all around it.

Years later, after we moved, my neighbor told me that the landlord came in and bulldozed our garden flat. But every year, the calladiums came back.