{"id":281,"date":"2011-10-21T16:56:18","date_gmt":"2011-10-21T20:56:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tessier-silky-terriers.com\/?page_id=281"},"modified":"2016-03-03T23:00:14","modified_gmt":"2016-03-04T04:00:14","slug":"senior-silkys-annie-busters-sister","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/tessier-silky-terriers.com\/?page_id=281","title":{"rendered":"Senior Silkys — Annie (Buster’s sister)"},"content":{"rendered":"
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This is Annie in her younger years, all dolled up.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Dear Sandy,<\/p>\n

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On Oct. 10, 14 years ago I bought one of your silkies. This morning she died around\u00a02 am. About 3 years ago she almost died but made a rally back, this time her age and heart murmur was just too much for her. Whatever she would affected her in the Spring and Fall of the year. I think she had an immunity problem or allergy to what they put on grass.<\/p>\n

Annie was such a sharp\u00a0 “little cookie.”\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 Even from\u00a0her puppy days, we could see that she understood more than she would let on.\u00a0I think that this gave her the winner edge over us.\u00a0 \u00a0At times she would not come when I called her.\u00a0\u00a0 I would turn away from her and say, “I just hate when you don’t obey me.”\u00a0\u00a0 Then, she could come to me because I called her on not obeying.\u00a0 She knew when we were discussing going out or going on a trip.\u00a0 We all thought she could read minds.\u00a0 I saw this myself when my father was watching television and Annie was on a stool sleeping\u00a0between my Dad and myself.\u00a0\u00a0My Dad\u00a0didn’t sigh or move but Annie sat up and look at my Dad like he had said something that interested her.\u00a0\u00a0 I asked him\u00a0what he was thinking about and he said,\u00a0“I was thinking about going outside to lock up.”\u00a0\u00a0 I told him that Annie read his mind.\u00a0\u00a0 There were other times that she showed us she was very observant.\u00a0 She was “some dog.”<\/p>\n

She was so very caring.\u00a0\u00a0When she stayed with my parents, I would tell her to take care of my Dad who was\u00a0ill.\u00a0I didn’t tell anyone that I told her this. \u00a0Well, she certainly did take care of him.\u00a0 At night he would go into his bedroom and close the bedroom door.\u00a0\u00a0 She would bark at him for this.\u00a0\u00a0 If he left the door open and she could check on him,\u00a0there was no barking.\u00a0 The funniest thing is that one day my father told me that Annie treated him like\u00a0he was one of her puppies.\u00a0\u00a0She was just doing what I asked her to do.<\/p>\n

I remember when I first visited you to talk about buying a silky and met Annie’s half sister.\u00a0 After raising Annie and having met her half sister, I have to say that\u00a0your silkies really\u00a0have a great\u00a0“personalities.”\u00a0 Annie was just like her half sister.\u00a0 One of Annie’s cutie actions was to bring attention to herself by going over to our small trash can and rake her nails down the rough side of it creating a noise. Everyone in the room\u00a0would usually look at her.\u00a0 She would continue until she received the attention she wanted.\u00a0 My father was crazy about her.\u00a0\u00a0Annie\u00a0sometimes wanted her own way and it would make my father angry. After making him mad, she would then jump up on his lap facing forward on his legs and turn her head\u00a0to look at my Dad\u00a0as to say, “What’s wrong?.”\u00a0 My Dad would say,\u00a0 “Look at that face.\u00a0 How can you be mad at her.”\u00a0\u00a0 We all said that Annie was a happy dog.<\/p>\n

Annie was beautiful even at the age 14 years old.\u00a0 She was a gorgeous silky terrier with perfect ears, face, hair\u00a0and\u00a0an air that said “I am a winner.”\u00a0She almost always walked around\u00a0as a\u00a0proud winner with her tail up.\u00a0 \u00a0No, I never put her in any competition, but everyone\u00a0who\u00a0met her thought she was a winner.\u00a0 And you probably have figured out she was a winner to me—she won my heart.\u00a0 I\u00a0miss how she filled the house with her warm spunky spirit that even prevalent through her senior years.<\/p>\n

Sandy,\u00a0I wanted to tell you that I really enjoyed her and that she was a little pistol even up to the end. We have many fond memories of her. She was a spunky little thing. She even taught us a good lesson at the end. Even when you don’t feel like it, get up and exercise. She went totally blind about 6 months ago but you would never have guessed it if you saw us walking and running down the street.\u00a0About 6 months ago (remember she is blind) we even found her going up and down steps at my aunt’s house.\u00a0 She was some dog. We will miss her dearly.<\/p>\n

Sincerely,<\/p>\n

Polly Mazzella<\/p>\n

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Dear Polly,<\/p>\n

Thanks so so much for letting us know about the last days of your wonderful Annie. Your experience is why I breed dogs.<\/p>\n

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Dear Sandy,   On Oct. 10, 14 years ago I bought one of your silkies. This morning she died around\u00a02 am. About 3 years ago she almost died but made a rally back, this time her age and heart murmur was just too much for her. Whatever she would affected her in the Spring and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":232,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-281","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/tessier-silky-terriers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/281","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/tessier-silky-terriers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/tessier-silky-terriers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tessier-silky-terriers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tessier-silky-terriers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=281"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/tessier-silky-terriers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/281\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":683,"href":"https:\/\/tessier-silky-terriers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/281\/revisions\/683"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/tessier-silky-terriers.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/pages\/232"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/tessier-silky-terriers.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=281"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}