October 16, 2008

So, here's our sweet, Senior Citizen, SarahGirl. Her mother was a Great Dane and her father was a yellow Lab. She really looks more like her mother, but she loves the water, just like a Labrador.

She really is sweet and innocent!

SarahGirl  just turned twelve years old this month. She has far exceeded her life expectancy and has a few issues, but she is overall still doing pretty well.

We got SarahGirl in February, 1997. We had just moved back to Texas after spending three years in upstate New York.  We had a huge yard and SirHoney was really wanting a dog.  We found SarahGirl through an ad in the classifieds.  The owner of the mother had kept all TEN puppies in her house until she found each and every one a good home. She still had around six four month old puppies when we went to see them.  We actually took two of them. We took SarahGirl and her sister, Molly, home with us.  Molly was the runt of the litter and SirHoney really felt like we should take her.  Within two or three months, we had to have Molly put down because she had hip displasia so bad that she was already on pain pills at six months old.  The vet couldn't guarantee that surgery would help her.  Luckily, SarahGirl has never had an issue with that.

SarahGirl relaxing by the pool.

Even though she gets us up at 4:30 every morning, she's still a sweet, loving, member of our family.

~LilSis