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Melody Stryker
Adopted from DRoH December 22, 2011
Rainbow Bridge March 7, 2024
Melody went over the Rainbow đ bridge today. She had a rough night so I took her to my vet and they said she was in a decline.
I made the difficult decision to let her pass. She was my first adoption and a terrific dog. â¤ď¸đ
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Audrey Rose Dexter
Rainbow Bridge February 26, 2024
I have some sad news. I had to put our dear Audrey Rose to sleep. She was
the absolute love of my life. She had medical issues which were consistently addressed,
but they piled up on her and we had to consider her quality of life. I held her (and cried my heart out) as she was peacefully put to sleep.
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Fanta Gill
Adopted from DRoH July 30, 2011
Rainbow Bridge January 25, 2024
I just wanted to let you know Fanta crossed the rainbow bridge on January 25th. My heart is so broken. Thank you for sharing her with me. We had 12 great years together.
The day before she passed, we found out she had cancer. I brought her home not knowing she was leaving that night, but my daughter and I were with her.
Iâm thankful she didnât have to suffer, but I miss her so much!
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Bruni Lavigne
Adopted from DRoH December 19, 2009
Rainbow Bridge January 24, 2024
We lost our beautiful Bruni girl in the early morning hours of January 24, 2024. It was quite sudden and has left us devastated as we are still mourning the loss of Cinnie just
four months earlier! For a sixteen-year-old, Bruni had seemed to be healthy but out of the blue she had a problem, and we rushed her to Gulf Coast where we left her for testing.
I was called at midnight to be told she probably wouldnât make it through the night! I drove there and talked to the clinic vet while holding her ⌠we determined the best course
was to let our little girl go so I for continued holding her for a while and talked with our Bruni telling her how much we loved her. Then the vet gently gave her meds to let her
pass over the Rainbow Bridge.
We adopted Bruni from DRoH fourteen years ago and for the first time in my life I had a pup that preferred someone other than me. It was quite humbling! Bruni was a Daddyâs Girl
through and through ⌠she would come curl up with me when Daddy wasnât available, but I knew where she would prefer to be. Suzanne brought her over for a Meet & Greet with Simon our
little male doxy who was very picky about who he would allow to share his home. After Simon approved of Bruni and arrangements made for Bruni to become a member of our family,
Suzanne and Mike were leaving, and Bruni went tearing out the front door ⌠Simon may have approved of Bruni, but Bruni wasnât letting Suzanne and Mike leave without her! Suzanne
then went tearing after Bruni and fell, hitting cement which ultimately left her with a black eye! Quite a beginning. After they left, I spent a little time with Bruni but had to
go shopping since it was Christmas, so Jack spent the next few hours holding Bruni in his lap consoling her ⌠creating Daddyâs Girl.
Bruni was such a special girl ⌠she and Simon became best friends and when he became an elder statesman at 18, she was so gentle and would cuddle and console him.
She was our Energizer Bunny and later when it was Bruni and Cinnie (about the same size), we would feed Bruni about a third more food than Cinnie to make up for the increased activity.
She LOVED trapsing around in my garden, seeking out geckos and on more than one occasion brought us a small snake, usually not alive. đ
Her other love was squeaky toys!!! She delighted in them, and nothing would make her happier than when I came home with a new squeaky. Bruniâs toy box was filled with toys
from different seasons or just ones I thought she would love. There is a Mickey that is almost as long as she was that she would drag through the house. It was such fun when
she got a new squeaky to watch her figuring out where the magic sound spots were, but once she found them, be ready. In the evening, we lie in bed and watch a TV show, and she
would always have a squeaky with her. Often, she would get up, and down the ramp she would go ⌠you could hear her searching through the toy box for just the right replacement
and then back she would come happy as could be.
As Bruni became a senior citizen, she was quite demanding, and quite vocal, about everything, and it was our job to figure out what she wanted. Usually, it was to go outside.
However, the time periods for staying outside became shorter, but the requests were quite often making us her private doormen. She was still our energizer bunny, but the batteries
were wearing down.
Bruniâs inner clock would inevitably bring her to me, loudly letting me know it was 9:00, time for the âtooth treatâ or 5:00, dinner time, sometimes maybe just a little early.
She might choose to look around the doorway using the âarenât I cuteâ trick or if she and Cinnie ganged up on me jumping all over and around (which was often), I had no other choice
but to give in.
We miss both our girls so much and cannot believe that Bruni Girl left us so suddenly. We miss you Baby Girl. Have some cuddles with Cinnie, Simon and also Samantha who was
with us for such a short time.
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