Re: [PyrNet-L] 10 good things about Marple

["Merrilie" <Grammy@biddeford.com>]

Funny how one dog (?- mine don't think they are *dogs*) can influence your
life!  I just joined this list last night, and one of the reasons was
because of your descriptions of Marple and Conrad!.... I am so sorry to hear
of her passing, but she shall join the others before her on *Rainbow Bridge*
and we will see them all there!
Merrilie

----- Original Message -----
From: Jane Gill <janegill@fast.net>
To: Pyrnet-L <pyrnet-l@pyrnet.org>; Stephanie Unger <fshairydog@enter.net>;
Winnie Pugh <obafghan@interactive.net>
Sent: Saturday, June 26, 1999 7:38 AM
Subject: [PyrNet-L] 10 good things about Marple


> I know I rarely post to Pyrnet, although I lurk like a friendly shark
> all the time.
>
> But since most of the people who knew Marple in her salad days do happen
> to be on this list, it seemed appropriate to note her passing here.  I
> post not to mourn her death, but to celebrate her life.  Here are 10
> good things about Marple:
>
> 1.  She had a dark mask and beautiful eyes.  The most accomplished
> Hollywood makeup artist could not have applied her eyeliner more
> perfectly.
>
> 2.  Her coat had a certain zany Phyllis Diller quality, which she
> delighted in perfecting by decorating it with sticks and leaves.  We
> battled a lot over that coat, she and I, and she always won.  She'd just
> grow more of it.
>
> 3.  She was smart and tough and funny.  She made me laugh every day.
>
> 4.  She could open locks and gates and doors at will.  Thank goodness
> she decided to stay home with us, and never grew a pair of thumbs.
>
> 5.  She loved people, especially young people.  Her favorite holiday was
> Halloween, when she would attempt to kiss every face and dive in every
> bag.  I took her as 1 of 2 demo dogs to a cub scout meeting one time,
> and had to struggle mightily to avoid her breaking her down-stay to
> fling herself into the crowd of little boys.
>
> 6.  She mothered our kittens even when they had the poor taste to grow
> up to be cats.
>
> 7.  She taught me much more about dominant bitches than I really wanted
> to know.  If she had been my first Pyr, I never would have had the
> courage to have another one.  Because she was my second Pyr, I'll never
> have anything else!  She was the one that really turned me into a
> dyed-in-the-wool Pyr person.
>
> 8.  She had a lovely recall, and a riotous stand-for-exam:  feet
> planted, tail wagging furiously, occasionally accompanied by eyelash
> batting for the judge.  She seemed to feel that flirting with the judge
> might improve her score.  In one case I think it did.
>
> 9.  She taught baby Weezie right.  At least in her mind.  Marple always
> believed that perimeters must be patrolled thoroughly.  We have the
> beaten path right next to our hedge and fence to prove it.  Conrad was
> always a wash-out at patrolling, but Weezie now has accepted the mantle
> and carries on the good work. No bears in our yard!
>
> 10.  At the end she was not in pain, she was just old and tired and
> vague and frail.  She left me peacefully, cradled in my arms and not
> worried about what the vet was doing.  And that's not a bad end for a
> 12-year old rescue dog.
>
> This is in loving memory of Ms. PB (Pushy Bitch) Marple, ILP, CD.
>
> She will always walk by my side.
>
> Jane Gill
> Conrad and Weezie
>
>
>
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