Cleo (2007-2021); in Chicago during her daily squirrel hunt. She was a lab to the core – loved food and people, tried to hunt any critter that moved, and in general she was very high maintenance. She once ate a half-dead squirrel and threw it up on my rug, got bit on the nose by an alley rat, got sprayed by skunks (twice), got her siblings in trouble by getting them sprayed by skunks, tried eating a toad, tried eating a slug, and swam until near-exhaustion to catch a duck. She was my munchkin and we loved her so much. She was the most docile dog I’d ever seen. She was very brave, recovered from her paralysis after she had an FCE in 2013 and went to live a full life for another 8 years. The last 6 months were difficult; she became paraplegic and her health slowly deteriorated. Her death hit me vey hard. She showed me how to deeply love and care for someone till the very end.
-Love you forever, Deepika, Marcus, Arya & Alisha