CrystalwolfLady's Witchy-Bitchy Blog: My Krystal Girl...Update

Today July 6, 3 years that Krystal come to live with me.

I don't know what her life was, but she was found wandering the streets of LA in So. Cal with two Pups, nursing...

The Rescue thinks she was a "Puppymill dog" and kept in a crate until she got out, somehow. I think it was the Lancaster fire. I do have to crate her when I leave she goes nutz...

So my Marshie has passed so suddenly the previous month...I was falling into a deep depression. Friends and Family helped me get Krystal.

Krystal was 55 lbs when she came to me, after being at the rescue for a month! I shudder to think of what she looked like when they found her...

She was so ungrounded when she came, she had been ripped away from her puppies, and then spayed and then she had bonded with the Foster girl and then she was ripped away from her and given to me and we had a 350+ journey to go home.

This poor girl...!

Later my friend who went with me, said "I didn't think she would make it, she was so thin..."

Now she looks like this...

My Marshie had died so suddenly and without warning, she was slightly off feed but eating and doing everything until that fateful night when I found her in the bathroom acting weird.
Trust me, a sick dog always goes into the bathroom, I don't know why!?!

By morning she had a crazy fever that I have never seen on any dog ever and I was a Vet Tech for years! She could not walk. She was out of her head.

I got a ride to get her to the vet and he said she had a spine stroke, something I never ever seen or heard about. She had gotten a rabies vacc 2 months prior.

The Vet was a nice Sikh man and he knew I wasn't ready to let her go...I wanted to see how she was after the fever, as I couldn't determine the extent of her paralysis.

He gave her injections and some meds and we came home. I had a hellish night with her.

I felt if she came out of the fever she may be ok.
I had been up for over 24 hrs with her. Finally she got to sleep and I did too. At about 4am I heard her give 3 little cries, not of pain or anything I thought the fever broke.
I thought she was ok...

When I got up at 6 she was gone. She was still warm....
It was Fathers day. I was devastated...

I thought she would make it to 12 yrs...she was 11 1/2. Run Free, my baby girl...

So Krystal was VERY ungrounded the first two weeks, but one morning I was making coffee and she came, throw down Marshie favorite toy (Platypus baby) at my feet and looked me straight in the eye and said (mentally) "Don't you know who I am"?

I looked and said "Marshie!?, Marshie??" and got a coffee bean to test.

(Marshie loved coffee beans)
She ate it.

In a flash she was gone and Krystal was there. This happened 3 different times. When I get Marshies collar down and let Krystal smell it she assume the position a subordinate dog does. She wags her tail and looks expectantly. I have NO DOUBT what so ever that it was her and I try to comfort people who have lost their beloved Furkids to know, they are STILL here with you! Also most likely being cared for on the other side by a family member or friend who has passed.

So Tomorrow will be 3 yrs and Krystal has grown so much, physically and mentally. She is 70lbs now. She guards the house and acts like a regular dog. I do have to crate her when I leave, tho, something that bothers me, because I've never had to do that before, but the rescue advised me that she would hurt herself if I didn't after she tore down two sets of blinds.

We walk over a mile everyday and I'm hoping to be able to take her out to places because she is a ESA dog.

A dog will return your love a million times over. When I'm sick, she is there...like a good "Mom"...

I miss Marshie, she always lives in my heart and I know she is here, all I have to do it take down her collar and show Krystal! Krystal knows!

Also when something like this happens you really know who your friends are and who are the posers.

The woman who went with me, was a neighbor I barely know she dropped everything to go 600+ round trip! Her Husband took Marshie & I to the Vet when she was sick.

Rescue a Dog, you won't be sorry! Thank you German Shepherd Rescue of OC!

I don't know what we will do today, if It nice maybe go on a little picnic?

A longer walk or I will practice my Doggie Acupressure on her, she loves massages! And Reiki!
She is a beautiful girl who stole my heart.
Marshie and the Goddess brought her to me!

If you have a Furkid you would like to remember, or Anyone

you would like to make a Tribute to, who has gone on to the Summerland/RainbowBridge, Please do! You are more than welcome to make a post here as a tribute to your Loved one!

I would like to pay Tribute to "Bobbi" my Sweet Angel Friend who passed in Jan this year after losing her fight to the big C.
RIP♥

Update: Today it is 4 yrs since my Marshie left. Krystal has done so much to heal my heart & soul. I am so full of gratitude for her love. I just spent 2 hrs posting Dogs from GermanShepherdRescue of Orange County a dog who was then a pup I was going to rescue for her right after her 11th birthday but decided not to b/c I couldn't afford two doggie ins policies & food. So I didn't adopt him. He is STILL THERE! I have tears!!! Please Share him so we can find him a Furever home! His name is "Barney" and he was rescued from a hoarders house who did not get him the Vet care he needed....