Our Family Pet

Our Family Yearbook Post#14
Tell About Your Family Pet

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This post is in memory of our family pet

"Sissy"

She passed away a couple of weekends ago.

Let me tell you her story. Sissy is an Alaskan Malamute.

A few summers ago,I think about 5 or so, she wondered up in our yard. She was very poor looking. She had numerous gun shot wounds and was over all in very poor health. We tried to locate an owner ,but no one ever came forth. So we took care of her ourselves. She took right up and turned out to be a beautiful healthy dog. We had no idea what her name was and after calling her several names, Katie decided she wanted her name to be Sissy. Katie called her Sissy and she came. So Sissy became her name. The first thing I noticed about her was her love for children...we had something in common:) She loved kids! She was also very protective of kids. If another dog tried to enter our property while children were playing, she would run them off. She would dart at them and shine her teeth and they always went the other way. However the kids could climb all over her, lay on her, etc and she was gentle.

Her favorite treat (and she would dance for it) was fat free chicken hot dogs. She would greet me every Friday(after I bought groceries) with this little dance she always done. She looked like a show horse how she pranced. She knew if I left the house on Friday that she was gonna get a pack of chicken dogs and she did.

We took Sissy to the vet and they told us that she was well over 10 years old ,because her teeth were worn down, but they couldn't say exactly how old she was.

But within the last two years, she had started slowing down a little. However,if the kids were outside she would follow them up and down the drive way and all over the uard. She just took that on as her job and she watched the children well. I could tell at times she would be so tired of following them ,because she would start dragging and she'd stop every few steps to rest but she would go on anyway, sometimes for hours at a time. Up until the week she passed she kept kids.

The week that she passed her health quickly went down hill. She went from walking to no walking...not even to go to the bathroom. She was snappy which was not like her and she wouldn't let us pick her up ,much less put her in the truck to carry her to the vet. So we called a vet to come out and he diagnosed her with cancer. We decided to have her put to sleep,because she was just to weak to go on. That vet said she was well over 10 years old (just like the other vet said) He thought she could have been 12-15 years old and had lived longer than most dogs of her kind ,that he had seen.

She brought a lot of joy to our lives and was one of the best pets we ever had.