Thank you for your words and thoughts and prayers. We were with Sandi when the Vet. euthanized her. I cradled her upper body and head in my arms, and stroked her beautiful fur and told her that she would soon be out of pain, and playing at the Rainbow Bridge with our Angel. I told her she might even get to playfully chase Angel without getting into trouble. And I told her she could run and play and chase rabbits, and the squirrels that always like to sit up on the power lines or the tree branches abover her and tease her. She was more alert than Angel was last May when we had to have her euthanized. But she was calm and went very peacefully. I still can't believe she's really gone. I wish our son, Alex, could have been there to tell her goodbye. He was just five years old, and in Kindergarten, when we got her. They grew up together. He was shocked and saddened when he heard the news later. (We weren't able to get ahold of him until a few days later, when he called my husband.)

Again, thank you for your words of comfort, and my heart goes out to everyone who has had to go through the same thing. It is the most difficult thing about owning our pets that I can think of.................