Mosby and Irina
©1997 Bill Hollinger
Mosby and Irina
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Our Gallant Mosby, his proper name, died on September 27, 1997, in a tragic accident. He was playing his favorite game, "Chase the Primate", when he ran, while still accelerating, into a parked car. His back was broken. He was suffering terribly, and even while in fear and great pain he tried his best to listen and do what we were telling him while we rushed to the vets. But there was nothing anyone could do for him. We brought him home and buried him in his special garden. |
| There are literally hundreds - maybe even thousands - of pictures of Mosby, and I discovered over seventy pages of stories and letters to friends I'd written about him over the four years he was alive. Unfortunately many anecdotes were not saved, and are now lost forever. Still, reading what remains reinforced what we all knew, and reminded us of so many things we had forgotten. Many people remarked over the years about the photographs of my beautiful gray buddy. I always tried to explain that anyone with a camera in their hand could have recorded the same things I did. Mosby was the actor, the personification of one who lives life to the very fullest. I was simply fortunate enough to be there to share it with him, and to capture little snippets of his life in tiny fractions of a second, which appeared as pictures on the calendars these past three years. |  Baby Mosby |
 Baby Mosby |
Piper is home now, so there are still four Bouviers living with us. They are all special, and unique, as are all Bouviers. Perhaps it is this uniqueness that makes the void Mosby left so palpable. |
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Contents |
Herding | Carting
| Intelligence
| Mosby | Compendium
| Doggie Training
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