[nagdu] Nixon

[Sarah Meeks]

What kind of dog is Nixon?

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On Feb 15, 2013, at 10:10 AM, "Jen&Nixon" <jenandnixon at gmail.com> wrote:

> Today Nixon and I met 8 years ago, at the Oregon campus of Guide Dogs for
> the Blind. It is still unbelieveable it was that long ago, and he's been
> retired exactly a year. He was a phenomenal dog and nothing fazed him one
> bit! There's a successor Nixon being raised right now in one of the puppy
> raising clubs in Oregon and I hope he's doing well.
> 
> On FB I posted some of the more funny and cute pictures of Nixon of our
> working years together. One of him wearing, in his last month before he
> switched to a different collar of all his tags on his training collar.
> Another of him laying belly-up on the stairs, and he still sleeps at that
> spot all the time. I witnessed it over the Christmas holidays. Another pix
> of him in his own cubicle, where he's positioned in a way that is impossible
> to get in; but no one has figured out how he got in there in the first
> place. He did it all behind our backs. One pix of him laying with my mother
> after a hard day's work (his last few years of working, we had days from 7
> a.m. to 6 p.m.). Except on bowling night, we'd not be home until 9:30 at
> night. He was a trooper but after a while, it got too much for him. I have
> one of my favourite picture of him wearing his Red Cross bandanna when he
> first got it put on him. One pix of him wearing the cone and sleeping on his
> laz-z-boy chair on Thanksgiving after he had surgery to remove a few tumors.
> Lastly, a pix of him with a crink in his neck, the infamous sleeping
> position of his.
> 
> I'm in worry-wart mode this morning since I asked Dad how's he doing, and I
> may see him later today, he's been vomiting the last few days for no
> apparent reason, no matter if he has had water or been fed and they've
> withheld food for at least 12 hours (I believe it should be 24 then to a
> bland diet). He normally doesn't get into things he shouldn't, but something
> is obstructing the intestines for him to do this. He's happy despite it. :(
> I hate to worry and he's not legally my boy but I'm still attach to him as
> he's my *HEART* dog.
> 
> Anniversaries are always so special!
> 
> Jen McEachen and Aiken
> Pampered Critters Pet and House Sitting Services
> Prince George, BC
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