For those that haven't heard, we had to put Willow to sleep on Wednesday, 3 June, 2009. Long story short: she attacked Rummy 5-6 times over an 8 day period and it turns out she had some pitbull in her. We were told we would spend the rest of our lives devoted to her training since we already had so many incidents. Marc got bit multiple times trying to get Willow off of Rummy's neck. Rummy was admitted to the vet on Monday, 1 June, following the worst attack the day before. She was put on morphine, antibiotics, and pain killers and stayed to recover for a few days. Rummy is doing much better and we miss our little Willow. We just could not risk having her in our house with Alex, because although Willow and Alex were good buddies the K9 Counselors said that a lot of Willow's traits showed dominance to people (me and Marc) but that it could get elevated to hurting us or Alex. It was very very sad (LOTS of tears) to take Willow in but we had to do it. The way I look at it is that she had three happy years of love with us from the time we rescued her--she was soon to be put down then. Rest In Peace our little Wild Child...you are already missed!!
Below are pictures of the weekend we got Willow...Jacksonville, NC, May 2006.
poor little Willow was so skinny(above and below, foreground)
Family Pics October 2006
PCSing...May 2006 (in our Quantico hotel)
our girls...May 2009 (above and below)
Our Wild Child...Alex gives Willow a Goodbye Kiss on 6/2/2009
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