A Sad Day for the Bryant Family

For those of you who may not know, our oldest golden, Barkley, had bone cancer. This is the second dog that we've lost to a form of cancer. We noticed he was limping about a month ago, took him to vet thinking it was arthritis and they sent us home with some medicine. That seemed to help until the meds ran out and when the Vet looked at his x-ray again, he saw a mass on his knee joint.

We had few options...amputate the leg or aggressive chemo. Having gone through this before we decided not to do anything but make Barkley as comfortable as possible until everyone could say their goodbyes. And with Vann and Sue having been down over the weekend we felt it was time.

He was a great dog. I'm sad he won't get to grow old with Natalie. He would have been 9 in Jan. and he's been with Byron and I almost as long as we've know each other. He's made it through two moves, 4 doggy roommates (Daisy, Fish, Gracie & Bogey) and tolerated them well and he was Sue's best paper fetcher by far :) He's going to be deeply missed, but I know he's in a better place with the biggest pond and dock imaginable.

So let's take a trip down memory lane...

His first bath...never did have a care in the world.

Christmas 05


Barkley & Bogey

Bogey's so depressed without his buddy around.

Getting Sue's paper

Our old man: Jan 01 - Sept 09