[nagdu] Dog names, Sundance

[Tracy Carcione]

Thanks AnnaLisa.  That was a good story.
Tracy


> Hi Tracy,
>
> I wondered if anyone would bite, heheh.  Well, this is how Sundance got
> her
> name.  It's kind of a long story (but a good one), just to warn anyone who
> wants to stop reading now.
>
> Sunny's raiser, Elizabeth, is a realtor.  She met a guy who was a pilot,
> had
> his own lear jet (however you spell that), and was looking for a piece of
> land where he could have his own private air strip.  Elizabeth told me
> this
> guy, whose name was Roger, was a bachelor, quite handsome and a real
> charmer, so they became friends.  No, not that kind of friends... she is
> married and almost old enough to be his mother.  Anyway, Roger had two
> golden retrievers as pets, Butch and Sundance.  Elizabeth got to know both
> dogs, though Butch was an old dog at the time she knew Roger, and Sundance
> was a puppy.  Roger's Sundance was a female too.  Roger used to fly in air
> shows, like at Oshkosh, and he used to give plane rides to people without
> charge.  This is what he was doing at a show in La Crosse, WI, one
> weekend.
> There was a newlywed couple there, and he took the bride up one day and
> the
> groom the next.  When he was flying with the groom, Roger lost control of
> the plane because somehow the engines came unbolted from the wings.  He
> tried very hard to land the airplane safely but just couldn't regain
> control, and both he and his passenger were killed.  Elizabeth decided
> that,
> in Roger's memory,  the next pup she raised would be named Sundance.
>
> Elizabeth told me the two Sundances did meet each other and played
> together.
> The original Sundance is living with Roger's parents and is about 10 years
> old now.  Elizabeth has shared some of the emails I have sent her about me
> and Sunny with Roger's parents, and she told me they really enjoy reading
> them.
>
> Now you see why I wouldn't want to change her name?  I am so glad Leader
> makes it possible for us to meet with our dogs' raiser now if we wish to.
> Otherwise I would never have known of this very moving tribute.  You just
> never know where your dog's name might spring from.  At Leader, the
> raisers
> are allowed to name the pups, and I can tell you, they give very serious
> thought to the name they choose.
>
> AnnaLisa and Sundance
>
>
>
> _______________________________________________
> nagdu mailing list
> nagdu at nfbnet.org
> http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/listinfo/nagdu_nfbnet.org
> To unsubscribe, change your list options or get your account info for
> nagdu:
> http://www.nfbnet.org/mailman/options/nagdu_nfbnet.org/carcione%40access.net
>