Billie’s Happy Ending

August 2003

These pictures tell the story: Billie's suffering and her almost hopeless future.  But Billie was one of the lucky few...

Billie, before... on a chain so short that she couldn't move off the stairs unless a neighbour came and untangled her...

 
Billie today, thanks to the kindness of those neighbours who took her off that chain.
Morning swim in the Thompson River Chilcotin Plateau
Billie chilling a bit as she ages...but just a bit...
Ten years on...

Billie still can't get enough exercise, or just general wandering - as much as that's possible on-leash. We run shorter distances together but it's still 5K or so. And I sometimes just take her out and say "okay, where are we going" and she leads me on long forays around the neighbourhood - of course, focusing on places where she knows there are cats or cookies. It is a wonderful life. Thank you AAS.

 


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