Thank you all for your kind words. I'm at the angry stage right now at the unfairness of it all and mad at the whole dang world. But this is also part of the process I guess.

Her former owners didn't like her attitude and were going to dog food her as a weanling, so at least she got 8 years of love.

I regret not knowing what the baby would have been but I will just keep thinking that it would have been an exact duplicate of Pepper only in black and white and who would have gone into the show ring and made a name for himself.
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Ninga