11/05/2023
Today our precious Josie crossed over the Rainbow Bridge. From her diagnosis of cancer in January, she had 9 fabulous months, being pampered, riding dirty with us everywhere, walking the property, befriending our does and especially "munking" (trying her best to catch the chipmunks that aggravated the dogs this summer. Thank you so much Kerry Waters for allowing us to be her family these past 10 1/2 years. She was an amazing Mom to our Bent Pine pups, several of whom are service and therapy dogs.
God blessed us further by making her end short. Thursday morning she woke up completely different by not wanting to help me Sous chef at breakfast, or even eating. Yesterday she slept all day and expended whatever energy she had just to go out to bathroom. Today we took her to an amazing vet clinic in Whitefish where we were treated to a special room for our last moments. She was ready and we knew our Josie would never be able to get better. She passed so peacefully and my last words to her were to play nice at the Rainbow Bridge and not feel she had to tell everyone what to do. She will be greatly missed.
As we have named our property here in Montana "Angel's Rest" she will be our first angel on the farm.
