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Cutter

4/15/2001 - 11/10/2015We have had many pets, animal friends, companions, whatever term you choose that we were fascinated by, or in love with the beauty of, laughed at the funny behavior and displays of their views of the world; we felt " Loved:" and most certainly needed by many witty and wise creatures from a hungry infant beak, to aged paws or turtle claws clutching a grateful treat. We loved them as one bestows love or charity, at holidays. But Cutter, Vivian, and I, fell in love on a kinship level. The love and bond we shared was like a radio channel into the eyes and ears of another creature’s world. The old Lassie theme episodes of saving your life by getting help, or, would your dog leap off a cliff or ledge trusting you being below...Bah, that was baby stuff for the likes of us. Cutter proved himself a hero to human and dog, But THIS DOG KNEW when you were crying and hurt even on the inside and his 45 pounds of athlete dog leap into your lap, and his gold lupine eyes said "I understand, and I'll never leave your side". They don't judge empathy, psychic-atonement, or agape' in the show ring or our Cutter would have had a room full of ribbons!Richard and Vivian MuggVallejo, CaliforniaNovember 19, 2015

As my wife and I progressed in our married life, we began to feel the nesting/ nurture instinct. We decided our first dog together would have to fit out active lifestyle. That perfect dog happened to be a handsome, athletic and most of all intelligent Border Collie/Aussie Shepherd rescue named Cutter. We have to thank our cousin, Marissa, for searching endless rescues in our behalf. She sent us a posting of Cutter, intently ready to catch a ball and labeled it "The One" and she was right. We had no current experience with housebreaking, obedience or anything fancier than feeding bowls and poop scoops. But within months of adopting Cutter we were going on beach camp-outs, off-leash hiking trails and surfing at Bolinas beach. We also joined Vallejo Dog Training Club and he made us so proud by earning his first ribbon for "Canine Good Citizen. "
His physical feats were commonplace, compared to the mental abilities and the logistical mind a Collie bred from the Scot's highlands can demonstrate, Cutter always had the ability to "know where he was" as I'm sure many dogs are able, but Cutter showed us how he used it. When we had to leave Cutter for a work/vacation to Hawaii, my brother-in-law was tasked to stay with our bright baby. During a brief day alone, Cutter pawed open the antique louvered front room window, leap five feet off the sill and headed to College Ave., to visit the butchers and pasteria, "searching for his lost humans". Thankfully due to his tags and friendly face, we received more than one call from Oakland to Honolulu, telling us this friendly dog walked right into the store wagging his tail & staring around. We begged the caller from the corner book store to escort him 1 block home to the garden gate. She kept us live on the line as Cutter obediently and eagerly heeled for the good Samaritan and pranced and wagged when she opened his gate, She stated, "I don't think I can leave. He's got this tennis ball to fetch and he just keeps returning it and staring at me!"
Cutter fetched anything you could throw, but he felt sticks were supposed to be picked up by the gardener. When he first saw a soccer ball, an ancient past life memory must have awakened because his eyes lit up like a Brazilian walking down a cold Berlin street and hearing a pub door erupt with "GOOOAAALLL" Yes Cutter was somehow soccer mad. He loved that lumpy hexagon ball, whether it was leather, plastic or plush. Anything that was black, white and round got him up and jumping! He quickly learned to "head" the ball with full returning force, by using the furry and bony side of his cheek, but he would also "head" the ball with his forehead, up to 2 to 3 repeat bounces while dribbling the ball down the field, really showing off style!
Cutter somehow knew how to defend the goal as well. When a human player tried to kick a ball past him fast, high or low, he could stop a pass from nearly anywhere like the US Olympics’ goalie! As a puzzle game we would send the soccer ball to the most difficult parts of our backyard and he would readily dribble the ball back using the knuckles of his forepaws to grip and direct the ball nosing across the landscape!
The powerful combination of this family's multi-species love and the right place would soon come to fruition. About the 2nd year with Cutter we found our first and forever home with a spacious backyard, views of the Carquinez Straight and multiple recreational trails and beaches right in our own backyard. Cutter was in doggie heaven. Soon Cutter was sharing his hearth and kibble with a native old feral tomcat known either as "Baby" or Buster" depending on his mood when you met him! The two unlikely amigos went from napping together on the patio to one critter "inviting" the other to utilize the comfy king bed upstairs! Imagine the shock of coming home and in your bedroom, your sweet dog, on the bed with the rangy neighborhood tomcat,
The pack grew when we adopted from the Napa-Vallejo Humane society, a cute, tiny Queensland heeler mixed puppy with legs so short we named him “Oliver Stubbs". Then we adopted a black and white 3 month-old "Border" kitty we named Bhindi. She was fostered in a house with mixed litters of pit bull pups and kittens so she was fearless of dogs and commotion. When our dog family returned from walks, Bhindi always greeted her brothers with a chest to chest rub and then tease them by whipping their noses with her tail and racing for the door!
Cutter's life was complete when we received the Christmas gift of 4 rescued chickens. They love to scratch about the backyard at liberty hunting spiders and slugs, and of course Cutter was humbly in charge of chicken morning roll call, garden detail and round up at bedtime. This was during and after fetching with Oliver and wrestling with his kitty sister, Bhindi. Cutter helped raise them all with tenderness and esprit de corps!
I would often tell friends and guests, now I get the appeal of family farming, the silly Saturday cartoons about farm animals were 100% real, they just had human subtitle captions!! You and all these critters; living in the bed or the barn, are friends and partners, feeding oneself but with the the co-operation and tolerance of the others, even chickens, cats and dogs can nap and roll in the green grass together!
We knew that someday the exuberant life Cutter lived would show signs of wear and tear, even though doctors predicted that Cutter's extreme food snatching and gobbling crimes, his hyperactive beach romps, playing fetch in and out of deep shore breakers, or the mysterious bout of neurological spinning vertigo he contracted late in life would be "The End", but he beat them all .
We visited the same vet for so many years in Montclair, Oakland, we burst with pride when a young vet nurse suddenly looked at Cutter's chart and said "Oh! That’s Cool!" Apparently Cutter had Gold Star status at our vets office, a note stated "this is an awesome patient to examine and work with, puts up with anything" (tho' of course he grumbled softly when the vet lifted his tail...)
Cutter worked so long and hard at keeping our home and all his friends loved, herded and happy. He hardly noticed his eyes getting cataracts, or that his liver made the yard clean up like a sci-fi movie some days, or how the vertigo kind of crisscrossed what his ears were telling him. Imagine a border collie hearing "Walk!" bursting out the front door, running halfway, then turning back to the door and refusing to go! Even with sore bones Cutter indulged us by using a belly strap to assist him into the truck for more excursions with walks set to old dog speed.
Finally with the chill of November here, Cutter's fiery heart was now but ember. We reluctantly called Lap of Love. After 12 hours of no improvement and a valiant walk outside to go potty properly one last time, the hour of our home visit arrived. Cutter was so weak and suffering he could not rise and greet the Dr. Rene or his beloved dog sitter, our brother Dave. Through 15 years, these were the first two people Cutter had ever failed to welcome into our home with Love...With just the ache of un-repayable gratitude straining our hearts, we said our final goodbyes.

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Angel

5/25/2003 - 11/17/2015Dear Angel,
You will be truly missed and we love you so much. You were a great dog! You protected us from the mailman, and from anyone else you thought was a threat. We will miss you barking like crazy whenever the mail came. We will miss you staring at us when you wanted to eat our food. We will miss you and everything you did for us. I will miss taking you to the park, and waiting for you when you rested at the gazebo. I will miss buying you your favorite treats, and just petting you and saying "good girl Angel!" even after you bark for no reason. :)
I love you so much Angel, and I hope you knew just how much. We all miss you terribly. May you run free at any park you like now. We will see you again and we can't wait. We will have so many treats for you Angel! I love you so much.Fotini KasapidisReading, PennsylvaniaNovember 18, 2015

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Tucker

12/13/2004 - 11/16/2015Tucker, where do I even begin? You and your brother have been everything to us. The loves of our life, the children we never had, the sunshine in our everyday. You have taught us so much more than we could have ever imagined like Always love and comfort others, Put yourself second, Don't take life so seriously it's ok to be silly, Be beautiful on the inside not just outwardly, Stop and listen and try to understand, Always be neat and tidy and clean up after yourself, Appreciate music, Don't be afraid to be curious so go ahead and give that door a little nudge and so much more...its endless.
My beautiful, soft, smart, funny, sweet, good, amazing, and caring boy, I will miss you more than I could ever express as our love for you and your brother simply can't be translated with just mere words. Rest easy now free from pain and know that we think of you always and we look forward
....until the day we meet again. Loving you forever and always.Nina WhiteAtlanta, GeorgiaNovember 18, 2015

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Aysha

1/7/2008 - 11/12/2015Aysha had one of the most loving yet silly personalities, she always made me smile. Aysha had no shortage of love and as much as she loved adventure and found her way into it, she just as quickly was right with me ready to cuddle. Aysha had IBD since she was about a year old and then I got sick and Aysha wouldn't leave my side. She took it upon herself to make sure I was okay. Aysha was my best buddy, there are so many naughty things that she would get into but they were so funny and then you have all of the really sweet moments. Two days before; Aysha was so sick, she had gone down hill in about six weeks time and no medication would help. I was laying on my stomach on my bed and she came up, curled up at my chest and looked up at me. I knew she couldn't fight anymore, she was to sick but as she always did she loved to just look at me like she was telling me something. To have to say good bye was something I was not ready to do but I loved her more than the hurt it was going to leave. I didn't want her in pain! Aysha was an amazing friend and she is missed so much. You will always be missed and loved! I am so glad that you were apart of this family, Aysha Star one very loved baby!Angie LogsdonCharlotte, North CarolinaNovember 18, 2015

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Hefner

1/1/2001 - 11/14/2015This past Saturday, November 14th, I had to say good-bye to my beautiful, wonderful and amazing Dalmatian, Hefner. I knew for a while that the time was coming and it was a moment that I faced with both heartfelt anguish and consuming dread. I must thank Dr. Manetta LaVergne and the staff of Lap of Love for their kindness, understanding, patience and empathy and for helping me, do the right thing for my beloved friend. Thank you, Dr. LaVergne for helping Hefner to cross over the “Rainbow Bridge” with love and kindness.

Hefner is home now. They brought him back to me in a pretty little wooden box with a decorative carving on top. All in all, it is very nice. But I refuse to regard it as what it is, an urn. To me it is a Jewel Box! It holds my diamond, my most cherished possession, my exquisite, funny, dear and beloved friend. Welcome home, baby. Daddy loves you and misses you something awful, Heffie.Jim McKinneyCharlotte, North CarolinaNovember 17, 2015

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Bobo

11/15/2015Let's just say this, you were one-of-a-kind! You did not like everyone but then again you loved us all. Sometimes we all could pet you but sometimes you only would let me. It was almost like a game you would play with us and you wanted to be the smallest boss in the house. We would laugh about it. When I got onto Jamie with a certain tone you would grab his britches and shake it you knew when I was upset and you would chase Jamie outside in the yard. Over the 14 years we had you you really gave us a lot of love and laughs with your one-of-a-kind personality you were loved and it will be missed. It's hard to put 14 years down on paper. Your family of furry friends miss you also Shelby, Macy and Brocksana. You are now at the rainbow bridge you're suffering is over. Goodbye little fella eat all the chicken and rice you want! We love you!!Jennifer HitchcockGrovetown, GeorgiaNovember 17, 2015

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Allie

9/1/1999 - 11/8/2015It's been a week now since we said goodbye to our little girl, Allie. She left a huge hole in our hearts and in our lives. Allie was a gorgeous Belgium Shepherd Tervuren with a stunning coat and absolutely adorable personality. She worshiped my husband and would follow him wherever he went. She truly was daddy's shadow and would have happily gone to work with him if she could. Allie was just a very special soul - joyful, kind, sweet, gentle but still fiercely protective, very well behaved, independent, stubborn, and above all loving. Everybody who've ever met her loved her. She gave us so much love. We are grateful for all the years and all the love she shared with us. We almost lost her to a stroke when she was 7 so every subsequent year we shared was a gift and a blessing. Thanks to the acupuncture and wonderful Dr Freeman, the last two your of her life were made a lot easier. She retained her mobility until quite recently when all of the sudden she seemed to age rapidly. We did as much as we could for her, after all she was our daughter, but it became obvious that the pain couldn't be controlled any longer and that she was miserable. Allie was 16 when we said goodbye to her. She was loved and will live in our hearts forever. We are honored to have been able to give her home and that she chose to share her life and love with us. Allie will forever hold a piece of our hearts.Mt Dora, FloridaNovember 16, 2015

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Gryphon

10/1/2000 - 11/6/2015My beloved Gryphon was a big beautiful golden retriever however despite his size he was a gentle soul who touched so many lives and made having a dog a pleasure. I rescued Gryphon or should I say he rescued me! At the time I had just moved to Florida and was very lonely so I saw him at the animal control and was instantly in love. We were inseparable, we went to dog parks, the beach, jazz brunches in Ft. Lauderdale and everything else our little hearts desired. He was an avid swimmer. He could swim in the roughest waves and as far as I could possibly throw the Frisbee, he would still go and retrieve it.Meghan BrownPompano Beach, FloridaNovember 16, 2015

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Max Walker

10/10/2005 - 11/13/2015Max, you were not "just a dog" you were a 4 legged human, our baby. The love you showed us, has spoiled us. Your intelligence, gentle demeanor, and pure devotion is what we will carry with us forever. From the moment you came to us, we knew we were lucky to have you. Even with your health issues, from the moment you broke your leg at 7 months old, to the day you left us, 10 years later, you never complained. You just wanted us to love you, that's all you ever asked. And it was easy to do and we were happy to provide all the love you wanted. We are so heartbroken over losing you. The house is too quiet. There's nobody to greet me at the door, when I come home from a long day. There's nobody laying at our feet, just needing to touch us. No big brown eyes to look up at us, before going to sleep. I will miss the days when you wanted something, and I would say "say please" and you would raise your paw. Our conversations where you would tilt your head as you listened intently. To say you were the greatest there ever was, is an understatement. Everyone should be as lucky as we were. You were a one in a million baby. I cleaned the family room today, around your bed and found the bones you "buried" under the corner of the couch. My heart just ached. I will miss you forever my dear, sweet Max. Until we meet at the Rainbow Bridge, life will never be the same. You are loved...forever and always.Brian and Cindi WalkerSterling Heights, MichiganNovember 15, 2015

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Bailey

11/12/2015We remember the day that we drove out to the farm in Tennessee to bring you home. You had a very unique color, adorable spots and a birth defect that instantly attracted us to you. For twelve and a half years you provided our home with many memories and although you had your “quirky” ways you were a very special part of our family and greatly loved. To all of us, you were a constant companion and loyal friend. Although we were not the perfect pet family, know that you will always be a part of our family and that something will be missing now that you are no longer with us.
You were a sweet dog who we could always count on to snuggle with whether it would be to watch Netflix or read books. You were our first love and you will never be forgotten.
You gave us all you had. Whether it was being there when someone needed a friend or simply cuddling up close when it was cold, we could always count on you to be there for us. Although you had some unconventional hobbies, like licking the water out of the dishwasher or bringing dirty socks into the living room for everyone to see, that is what made you special and will be one of the things we will miss the most. You got the most out of your short time here with us, and we will be forever thankful for everything you gave us. Our home will always be somehow empty without the click clack of your nails on the hardwoods or your constant presence beneath our feet in the ever crowded kitchen. You will be missed but never forgotten. There will always be an empty spot on the couch for you.Ben, Cece, Anna and Nich TooleRaleigh, North CarolinaNovember 14, 2015

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