Sadie is good for lots of things.

She is not a loving dog in the lap dog kind of way. She will sleep by you but be prepared to be visited by her disgruntled vocalizations. She does not like to be disturbed once she is comfortable. She is always surprised when she lands on the floor after such vocalizations.

She is a bit disconcerted at this point in time due to the recent departure of her well trained elder pack members. They feed her and walk her and give her treats with great regularity. I forgot to feed her first thing in the morning yesterday. Dad is calling the SPCA. Oh, well. She survived and let me know that I was letting her down.

She is very attached to ME. She helps her when she is upset. Sadie is her friend and pal. They have shared a lot of their life together. Mary-Elizabeth needs her quiet support right now. She needs to have something or someone to take care of for a while. Sadie knows when you are upset and does what she can to help. M-E needs to look outside of herself for some distraction. Being asked to walk the dog and feed her gets us back to some semblance of normal.

I made Sadie go for a longer walk than usual. I need to get back in shape and by joe Sadie is going also. I had forgotten how nice it is to walk and greet new dogs and become re-aquainted with old ones. There is nothing quit like neighborhood banter. She sniffed and pulled back and tried to bark at the neighbors just to let them know we were around and she was back in charge. It was nice to take that bit of time to see what was new. New plants, yards that are being ignored and then to remember for a few moments what it was like a year ago in the TBD (Time before diagnosis).

Well we are back and Sadie is on the couch. She is pretending to sleep but will be letting us know when any offensive dog is in the yard. Or any cat, or any squirrel or....... She is quite the guard dog and she is doing her job with great alacrity. We are glad that Sadie is back.