Claire

This is Claire. We adopted her three years ago when a friend who is a breeder was retiring her. She was the sweetest of dogs, very slow moving and would eat everything - knapsacks, her leash, Max's leash, John's wash his car scrubbers, and car seat belts. Yet despite her penchant for eating all things I loved her to pieces. She could smell an apple under our trees from the driveway and off she would go. She was great to walk with because she would nicely walk behind me however she had an 1/8 mile limit - not very good for letterboxing.

Today, we lost Claire and even though I have had over a dozen dogs she was the one who brought a flood of tears to my eyes when the vet said she didn't recover from her surgery. She will be missed by a lot of people who grew to love her gentle ways.

This is how she would spend evenings - snuggled in Doug's lap - all 75 lbs. of her.