Sterling Shelby Ann (“Shelby”) was the light of our lives. We enjoyed every minute of the eleven years she was with us. To this day, I am pretty sure that she never knew she was a dog. No matter where we lived, she always had a “thrown” to lay on while she guarded the house against passing school kids and squirrels.

We took her one day to have her teeth cleaned. The vet administered too high of a level of anesthesia during the procedure. As a result, she began to have seizure that evening when she came home. Everything took a toll on her little body. We had to give her seizure medicine. There had been damage to her kidneys. We took her into a different vet. They did everything they could for her, but the day she was to come home, she took a turn for the worse. So instead of bring her home, we had to go and say goodbye. I was 6 months pregnant. We already had a 3 yr old son, who Shelby was not too keen on, so we say jokingly, that she faked kidney failure to avoid another beard pulling, screaming baby. That was by far, one of the hardest days of my life. Not a day goes by that I do not think of her and long to look into those sweet eyes.