{"id":544,"date":"2015-12-23T19:57:57","date_gmt":"2015-12-24T01:57:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/loosestringsfromthepast.com\/?p=544"},"modified":"2016-01-13T17:05:37","modified_gmt":"2016-01-13T23:05:37","slug":"a-puppy-for-christmas","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/loosestringsfromthepast.com\/?p=544","title":{"rendered":"A PUPPY FOR CHRISTMAS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Puppies and children naturally go together. Few things please a child more at Christmastime than a warm, furry puppy.\u00a0 Parents cherish the look on a child\u2019s face when they receive a puppy at Christmas or another time<\/p>\n<p>My young adult children, for whatever reason and without their Dad\u2019s knowledge, decided to turn the tables and give their Mom, age\u201cforty plus,\u201d a puppy for Christmas. To say it was a surprise is an understatement.\u00a0 It was a delightful surprise.<\/p>\n<p>That is how Babe came into my life.\u00a0 She was a Weimaraner like Schultzie, the First Dog, which I wrote about earlier.\u00a0 I was taking a break from education and had a small office in the house.\u00a0 It was a cold winter, so Babe spent her days on a cushion bed under my desk.\u00a0 There was another dog in the family, Cynthia\u2019s poodle, Chief.\u00a0 They had side by side beds in a hallway at night.\u00a0 She literally grew up beside me or at my feet most of the time.\u00a0 She tried to keep that position all of her life.\u00a0 She was truly my dog.\u00a0 Whenever someone she did not know was near me, she would automatically place herself between the other person and me.\u00a0 She did not growl, bark, or assume an aggressive stance.\u00a0 She just took up her protective position.\u00a0 There were a few times when the hair on her back would start standing up and I had to assure her that everything was O.K.<\/p>\n<p>Babe loved excursions with Ken and the children.\u00a0 She liked running around thefarm but her favorite activity was swimming in the San Gabriel River.\u00a0 These were the days before LakeGeorgetown, and there were low water crossings along the river.Families and teens of that era swam and picnicked at areas around these crossings. The friends of the children were always amused when Babe would \u201cfetch\u201d rocks from the bottom of the river.\u00a0 They would throw a rock in the river. Babe would jump in, put her head under water and paw around in the rocks.\u00a0 Then she would triumphantly bring a rock back as though it was the same one. \u00a0\u00a0She could spend hours doing this.\u00a0 She would do this same hunting game in shallow water or along the rocky shore.\u00a0 She appeared to be carefully choosing the rock to pick up.\u00a0 She liked to find large rocks and bring them to shore.\u00a0 Our son Kevin remembers taking her to the last crossing above where Lake Georgetown is now located.\u00a0 It was an excellent site\u00a0for hunting fossils.\u00a0 She would help him dig for a while and then go play in the water for while.\u00a0 She always brought him rocks.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-537\" src=\"https:\/\/loosestringsfromthepast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Babe-at-San-Gabriel-River-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"Babe at San Gabriel River\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/loosestringsfromthepast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Babe-at-San-Gabriel-River-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/loosestringsfromthepast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Babe-at-San-Gabriel-River-768x1097.jpg 768w, https:\/\/loosestringsfromthepast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Babe-at-San-Gabriel-River-717x1024.jpg 717w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>She also could be stubborn. Kevin remembers that the last time he took her to the river; she swam across to the opposite bank.\u00a0 He called her to come back.\u00a0 She got half way across and decided to turn around. \u00a0\u00a0He had to go get her and drag her back to the other side.\u00a0 They both had a hard time.\u00a0 She fought him tooth and toenail all the way. She was a great water dog.<\/p>\n<p>When she got older, we decided to breed Babe and have a litter of puppies.\u00a0 We were in the process of moving to the Rio Grande Valley, so the timing was not particularly good.\u00a0 She had six puppies in Georgetown.\u00a0 Cynthia assisted me, and we took her and the puppies to the Valley.\u00a0 It was quite a trip.\u00a0 Babe was nervous during the entire trip.\u00a0 Our vet had warned us of this as it was approximately a 7 or 8- hour ride from Georgetown.\u00a0 He gave us a mild tranquilizer for her.\u00a0 The puppies rode in a box except when they were eating. We had driven to San Antonio before we stopped for a pit stop near a Whataburger.\u00a0 I took Babe out of the pickup for a break while Cynthia went for hamburgers.\u00a0 Babe did not want to get back into the pickup.\u00a0 She sat solidly and would not move.\u00a0 She was relaxed and rather limp, but uncooperative.\u00a0 She was a big dog and it took both of us to get her into the pickup.\u00a0 We realized we were getting some \u201cWhat on earth?\u201d looks from people in the parking lot.\u00a0 We both had spasms of laughter which did not help the situation.\u00a0 This caused us to be unsuccessful in the first few attempts. We finally got on the road again.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/loosestringsfromthepast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Babe-How-did-this-Happen.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-539\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-539\" src=\"https:\/\/loosestringsfromthepast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Babe-How-did-this-Happen-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"Babe How did this Happen\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/loosestringsfromthepast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Babe-How-did-this-Happen-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/loosestringsfromthepast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Babe-How-did-this-Happen-768x1097.jpg 768w, https:\/\/loosestringsfromthepast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Babe-How-did-this-Happen-717x1024.jpg 717w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/loosestringsfromthepast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Babe-and-puppies.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-540\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-540 alignright\" src=\"https:\/\/loosestringsfromthepast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Babe-and-puppies-210x300.jpg\" alt=\"Babe and puppies\" width=\"210\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/loosestringsfromthepast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Babe-and-puppies-210x300.jpg 210w, https:\/\/loosestringsfromthepast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Babe-and-puppies-768x1097.jpg 768w, https:\/\/loosestringsfromthepast.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/12\/Babe-and-puppies-717x1024.jpg 717w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 210px) 100vw, 210px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>There was another trip with her and the puppies.\u00a0 It was back to Georgetown to sell the puppies.\u00a0 That trip was uneventful. \u00a0I was relieved when the last puppy went to a new home.\u00a0 I had had all of that fun I wanted.\u00a0\u00a0 Some time later, our vet queried, \u201cYou sure you want to spay a registered dog?\u201d\u00a0 I did not hesitate to reply, \u201cYes, I am sure.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Our valley residence was on the outskirts of La Feria on several acres.\u00a0 The property was not fenced.\u00a0 Babe had been inside a much smaller fenced yard in Georgetown.\u00a0 Her buddy Chief was fascinated with the yard.\u00a0 He had never seen so many birds and wildlife.\u00a0 He would sit on the porch and watch bunnies hopping around.\u00a0 Neither dog tried to chase them, just observed.\u00a0 Chief seemed to assume they ran around the yard just to entertain him.<\/p>\n<p>Every day for about two weeks, Ken walked the perimeter of the property withBabe and corrected her if she started toward the roadway or the adjoining properties. I was apprehensive about her staying inside the boundaries, but she did.\u00a0 We had a full- time yard man who lived on the property and he said she never strayed.\u00a0 She often made a walking inspection around the perimeter, but she stayed on her side.\u00a0 That is except one time.\u00a0 There were two aggressive dogs across the road.\u00a0 She ignored them until one afternoon she and Ken were at the front near the roadway.\u00a0 The two came barking aggressively into our driveway and onto the yard.\u00a0 She ran toward them and chased them all the way down their own driveway.\u00a0 They never crossed the road again.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Babe developed health problems when she got old.\u00a0 The vet said that she probably had cancer.\u00a0 We did not proceed with testing as she was old and the vet said it probably could not be successfully treated.\u00a0 He gave her a steroid shot and she improved.\u00a0 After several shots, Ken tried to get me to agree to euthanize her.\u00a0 I tentatively agreed.\u00a0 The last trip to the vet was on a Saturday morning.\u00a0 He said that he could give her another shot, but it would probably give her only 4 to 6 weeks more, possibly less.\u00a0 I said to him, \u201cBut she is not suffering.\u201d\u00a0 He put his hand on my arm and gently said, \u201cYou know that Weimars don\u2019t complain.\u201d\u00a0 I looked at Ken, started crying, and said, \u201cDo it.\u201d\u00a0 Then I walked out into the waiting room which was full of little kids and their pets.\u00a0 The woman walking out crying really got some strange looks from the little ones.<\/p>\n<p>The weather matched my mood.\u00a0 It was a dreary, drizzly day.\u00a0 There was a marker at the back of the property identifying the grave of a dog the owner had when he was growing up there.\u00a0 Babe\u2019s pal Chief had died of old age one night previously.\u00a0 He was buried there also.\u00a0 That was where I wanted Babe buried.\u00a0 Ken picked her body up and dug her grave in a light rain.<\/p>\n<p>I had lost a good friend.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Puppies and children naturally go together. 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