Asta Ryan: Gone West.

February 20, 1991 - December 8, 2010

Today we said farewell as one of our family members and loyal companion ‘went west’.

For a look back, you might consider these links:

The sweetest little dog butt

You can’t trust a dog dish. Asta teaches us another trick or two

A very durable little dog - Asta

Coping with the summertime heat at Rancho Maven

Helping your old dog navigate the aging process

Note: ‘gone west’ is a term aviators use to talk about the passing of a fellow aviator. Yes, Asta was also a member of that club. She loved it when I would push the canopy back on taxi in our Grumman Tiger - then she could hop back up on my lap and let the slipstream blow her ears back as she looked out and smelled all the great smells. She never puked in the airplane, either.

-maven

Monday Musings: December 28, 2009

The kids left for home in the Bay Area early this morning, and we’ve spent the day picking up, putting away and trying to use up leftovers from parties and dinners. I really do feel like after several days of non-stop eating,  I could easily never eat again. Maybe just tea and the occasional bowl of cereal. Ugh. But we really had a wonderful time together.

I emailed foster dog Mom, Joy, about ‘Slick’. It’s a no go. I was wiping tears away while writing the email. But here’s the deal, I’m sad because he’s so damn perfect … the perfect dog for me/us … except that he doesn’t cotton to cats and isn’t likely to change.

Joy said that he’d be relentless with Ladybird and we just can’t do that to her. We both adore that furry neck warmer.

That said, I’m mounting a campaign to get Slick adopted by the right person/s who don’t have a cat. I will post additional information - Joy was incredibly forthcoming with me about him - so that hopefully the word gets out. This very special guy deserves a wonderful home for the new year.

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Oh, my ... another JRT in the house?

Maybe.

I was just surfing the net the other night when I came across a JRT rescue site and had to look. Bad, bad, bad. There was a picture of Slick. He is in a JRT rescue foster home in Santa Rosa, California.

Here’s his picture:

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