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Happy Birthday Bailey

20 Friday Jun 2025

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June 20, 2008, is the day I walked into Angels for Animals looking for you after searching around on their site. There you were in your cage, so happy someone would come visit you and take you for a walk outside. You were 7 years old and had been returned twice. Why that was, I can never imagine. I took you for a short walk outside, and I think it took only 1 second to fall in love with you, my first dog with the biggest brown eyes in the world. Happy eyes. I walked back in and said that I wanted to adopt you. They literally said, “You want to adopt Bailey?” They were seemingly in shock and went and got some papers for me to fill out, and they said they would have to make a phone call to someone to let them know. They called Maryann, whose desk you used to sit under, and as I was writing the check for your adoption fee, they told me that Maryann said that I had better be good to you or she was going to come after me. I remember telling them to assure her that you would have the most amazing life with us! And you did. I miss you every single day, my darling daughter. Your leash is always in the car, so you are always with me. Your pictures are everywhere, and we have our book, Letters To Each Other, which we wrote together and published. I know you were there for Joy when she came over the Bridge on April 2nd. Thank you for being there, I knew you would. I got the sign you sent, and I guess you both decided awfully quick that Shadow would be the next one to rescue.

I just wanted to tell you that I was thinking about you and wanted to wish you a Happy Birthday up in Hyfryd. Yes, I know you are still the friendly Mayor and watch over everyone. I chose these pictures of you to illustrate your beautiful transformation. I have thousands of pics, but the first one is the day I adopted you. The second is when your fur started to grow back in, and the last one is simply you in all your beautifulness. We never had enough time together, but your years with me were your best, you said. I am glad I could make them shine for you and even though we are not on planet Earth together right now, I will be with you and Joy, Tarzie, Cheetah, Jane, Safari, Freedom, Sabie, Shauna and all the rest some day and again, thanks for taking care of everything up there for me. I hope that you got to eat a lot of sweet treats today. I am thinking of you today on your Birthday as I do every single day. Love, your mama.

Yes I saw You and the Rainbow…

08 Sunday Jun 2014

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Bailey's tree June, 2014

Dearest Bailey,

Of COURSE I saw the rainbow! Thanks you so much for sending it to me. I Love you…..sorry it took me so long to write back, but as you know we got back to PA just a week and had so much to do. Joy and I visited the tree 5 times already though! Look at how BIG you have grown the tree and just the other day it was sprouting some little red leaves. Red was your color and that is why you have a Red Maple! It’s so sweet and pretty just like you. You know I carry a picture of you in my wallet and whenever I open it to get out money, people often look at it and comment on how beautiful you are. I miss you so very much.

You will be happy to know that our little rambunctious Joy was an angel on the trip and has proven to be the best traveler! She liked staying in the den and we felt it was safer in the car that way. She was perfect and Safari is always great in the car as you know. It’s SUCH a long trip and so tiring. We did too much really and now my arm is bugging me worse than it already was. Seeing a new doctor for that tomorrow. Lots of fun, right?  You are probably having tons of fun in Hyfryd. How are my Tarzie, Cheetah, Freedom and Shauna? Please lick their faces for me okay?

I wanted to send you this picture of you and me. It was the day we adopted you – June 20, 2008. Almost six years ago. That is before all your hair they shaved grew back. You were so cute always were. That face I could not resist. I miss you Bailey my sweet daughter. You sure picked the most wonderful girl to walk in your paws when you found us Joy. She is really a sweetie pie just like you. Anyway, I was just thinking about you. Here is the picture for you to put next to your bed tonight and dream of us. I love you always, Mommy – xxoxooxox

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It’s never enough

18 Tuesday Jan 2011

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I will be the first to admit I am a needy dog. I cannot help it. Before Sherri found me, I was in the shelter for a year. I made myself the “favorite” shelter dog so I could be in the office everyday under Mary Ann’s desk, but I knew she would never take me home because she already had five dogs. I don’t think I would have liked it there with all those dogs.

I know Sherri wonders why I bark commands at her. I like when she pets me for a long time and rubs my spinal column because it feels so good.  I think I eat 9 times a day, I am worse than a little baby, but since my surgery I feel better. I don’t know if the cancer is gone but I want to play constantly and I love attention-constant attention – like just now when Sherri went to write this for me I made her stop and play ball, right in the middle of a sentence – I don’t care.

I have reached that time in my life where I want what I want and now, not 10 minutes from now, just right now. I know that drives people up a wall, but somehow I cannot help myself. I feel especially hyper today because of the full moon. My ancestors were grand wolves and they did the same thing during the full moon glow.

We went to dog park today and I herded all the little dogs around. Everyone there loves me and thinks I am beautiful. I love all that praise, in fact nothing makes me happier than constant praise and Sherri is the perfect one to give it to me but perfect strangers? That is simply a bonus! I think the reason I act like this is because I want to take it all in. Sleeping is a waste of time really. I mean, I don’t know how this stupid cancer thing is going to work out so I don’t feel like sitting here waiting around and doing nothing. Sherri says I am her “go-dog.” I think that is accurate! I love to ride in the car and go. I could care less where we go it’s just fun to go! I LOVE when we go shopping! Here in Florida, us nice dogs can go into stores and shop for purses and clothes! The ladies at the stores all love me and always offer me treats. Life is good.

That is the point. Life. I love life. I love my life with my parents and my cat, Safari. Sherri prays for me everyday and kisses my bladder area where my scar was – you cannot even see it anymore since my hair is all grown back!! I am so happy about that. I have a great life. In July I will be 10 and I am determined to have my 10th birthday because I know Sherri will get me a lot of cool stuff and I will get to eat stuff that I love – like fresh turkey. I never want to leave their side. I am guess I’m needy that way.

A Blade of Grass, A Pile of Leaves, Many Scents…

08 Sunday Nov 2009

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I am always amazed by Bailey’s sense of smell. While her vet thinks she is all Border Collie, I feel she is mixed with a bit of Beagle. Maybe she got most of the Border Collie genes, but there has to be Beagle in her. Beagles have the most acute sense of smell of all dogs and Bailey’s nose is like that of a winemaker. She knows what is good and what isn’t. When she walks she might sniff at a blade of grass for minutes at a time before we move on. Now that it is Fall, a certain leaf may captivate her attention as she soaks up its aroma through her adorable black, wet nose.

I love her acute curiousity about the world and people she sees on the street. “What do they smell like?” And, she must think, why do they smell that way? A person can smell bad, or good, or of perfume. Perhaps they smell old or dirty. If she is lucky they smell like another dog and usually she can sniff those people out in a crowd within a minute. Since adopting Bailey, I see the world a bit differently. Before I had Bailey, I once read that you should let a dog lead you where they want to go and I agree with that. I do let her lead, although dog “experts” might not agree with me. They tend to think “the person” should do the leading. If I did it that way, I may never get a chance to view the world through Bailey’s dark brown eyes on our walks and then I think I would truly be missing a great deal. We are together so much because I work at home and I love that I can be there for her. I want to take in her world as she does mine. We have formed a special bond that I suppose, makes for one world all of our own.