Monday, April 22, 2013

WINSLOW, THE CEMETERY DOG

One scorching July day my sister, Ruth, and I went to the cemetery to put flowers on our parents gravesites. We got busy pulling a few weeds and didn't notice a puppy crawling to us until he had crawled right up to me.
 My sister said, "Mary" in a tone of voice that I knew something was up. When I glanced up to see what was going on—there he was. A mangy, starved little thing with almost no hair on his body. He was sunburned, and so pitiful we could hardly bear to look at him.
We scooped him up and headed for the vet. Our vet said he was a strong little dude, and with proper care in two weeks we wouldn't recognize him.
I bought infant size sleepers with snaps across the seat and put those on him to keep him from scratching—he was so cute! I couldn't find a photo of that. I named him after one of my favorite artist, Winslow Homer.

                                                                      Meet "Winslow"

                                          Life is so good when you have toys, and no itch!

                                           
                                             Mary and Ruth call me "Winslow."
                                         
                                             It looks like fun out there...
                                       
                                          I'm almost all well, I have hair again!
                                       
                                         I help Ruthie feed the goats apple slices.

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4 comments:

  1. AnonymousMay 2, 2013 at 4:50 PM

    Oh, my gosh I am so loving the happy ending to this story!!!!

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  2. Missy TippensMay 2, 2013 at 8:04 PM

    What a precious doggie!! And lucky to have such a wonderful home. :)

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  3. Ruth Logan HerneMay 3, 2013 at 4:05 AM

    Oh, I love this!!!! What a great story and I love seeing Winslow improve! Thank you for posting this and thank you to Tina Radcliffe for sending me the link!!!!

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  4. UnknownMay 3, 2013 at 10:25 AM

    Thank you girls for the sweet comments, glad you liked him—Winslow's story continues. I'll post that later. I did find the photos of him in his one'sies... I made up that word :-) Posting them, their too cute!

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