Melody
February 13, 1996-July 6, 2009
For those of you who don't know, we had to put Melody down while we were in Kentucky last week. I miss her so much...especially being home all day when she would normally be by my side.
We got her when I was twelve years old from my eighth grade bus driver. She had two black labs, Cagney and Lacey, and Lacey was Melody's mother. They didn't know who the father was but suspected he might be a german shepherd from down the street. My dad and I went to my bus driver's house to see the puppies which were all corralled in a playpen in her kitchen. Most of them were all black but Melody stood out with her pretty brown markings and I was drawn to her immediately. I remember my dad never said I could actually have her...he just left and waited in the car and told me to do what I wanted. I suppose this was his way of laying the responsibility on me at the start but she was definitely a family dog from the beginning. She's the first dog I can remember that had my mom wrapped around her paw. She pretended she didn't like her being in the house but I know she secretly didn't mind. Once I went to college she was Mom and Dad's. She would get so excited when I came home for visits and she would climb in my suitcase when I packed up to return to Carson-Newman. Thanks to Dad she could sit, speak, lay down, say please, roll over, say "roll over", smoke a bone and at one point pick up her toys and put them in a basket. She weathered a move to Loudon, Tennessee and to Georgetown, Kentucky and finally spent the last two and a half years in Marietta with Ryan and me. She bonded with Ryan immediately and they were best buds these last couple of years. Even as she was showing her age he really brought out the puppy in her with their nightly play sessions on the living room floor. She loved laying on the porch and behind our curtains in the bedroom and on the couch when we weren't home. She looked forward to her bedtime bone and never let us forget to give it to her...never. I could go on forever...
Like I said, I miss her and it's been harder than I thought to lose her--I mean she's been around for half of my entire life! So I thought I'd share just a few pictures to remember her by.
Oh, and maybe I should mention she certainly left her legacy...all over our house! But we're about rid of it now I think:)!
Little Melody on our deck in Connecticut
A bit older in the kitchen in Connecticut
On one of my visits home from college...she's annoyed that I'm holding her face.
Marci and Melody in Summer 2006 when we bought our house on East Acres
Full of life in M & D's backyard in Georgetown
At Kara & John's 4th of July party last year
Snoozing in the back of the car
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