    Cindy
We found Cindy as a stray in San Angelo, Texas .... or
should I say, she found us. We found her sitting in front of our
garage one evening. She looked to be around 9 months old.
We let her stay in the garage overnight and started posting signs the
next day in an attempt to find her owner. She seemed like a
really friendly dog. A Pomeranian, but on the large size for the
breed. Cindy took to me immediately. At the time, I had my
gym set up in the garage and she would stay by my side the entire time
I would be working out. After about a week and a half looking for
her owner, we decided to keep her. She wasn't without medical
problems ... ring worms and a heart murmur .... which made me think
that she was abandoned in our neighborhood. Anyway, we got the
worms taken care of and the heart problem didn't bother her during the
early years. She made her first cross-country trip with me in
early 1986, when I drove from Texas to Pennsylvania for
Christmas. She was an absolutely great traveller!
Eventually, our travels took her with us to Munich and
Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany and back to San Angelo. It was in
1992, while in Garmisch, that her heart really started to affect
her. A valve was rapidly deteriorating and she would have spells
where she would just keel over for seconds at a time. The German
vet we took her to gave her no more than 6 months to live. After
some thought, I called in a few favors with some well-placed people I
knew. I arranged to be reassigned back to San Angelo, Texas,
knowing that we could get good vet care for her. Our friend and
vet kept Cindy going for 2 years with some cutting edge
medications. It was shortly after I retired and we relocated back
to Pennsylvania that her heart gave out and she passed away.
While Cindy was more my dog ... she loved everyone, especially our
daughter. |