A Letter from Mavis's Mom
During my years of owning horses I have always had dogs, well around 1993 my wife and I decided to get a Great Dane puppy, we found a breeder and picked out a female her name would be Bandy. We bought her when she was six weeks old and raised her till the great age of thirteen which is a very old age for a Great Dane.
When Brandy got about Three years old we decided to breed her to have a litter of puppies, man did we ever she had a litter of fifteen puppies, two died leaving us with thirteen pups.
I advertized the puppies in the local paper as well as the state paper and sold all of them in about a month.
Brandy helped raise my kids and was one sweet girl. We have had great Danes ever since getting her and more than likely will always keep one or two around because their temperament for such a big dog is like a gentle giant.
To my surprise I checked the mail last week to find a letter from a nice Lady that I had sold one of Brandy’s puppies too.
It was so touching I told her that I had to share it with every one of our friends, readers and guest.
I hope you find this as touching as I did!!
Dear Mr. Moody,
I am writing to you because I believe that I purchased a Great Dane puppy from you in the fall of 1996. At the time, we were living in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania and I had you ship her to me by the way of air travel. Do you remember that? She was a beautiful black puppy! I lost your contact information as we have moved twice in the last 13 years so I do hope you are the same person. I remember that you were from Monck’s corner so I looked up names in that location and found yours.
Mavis was the most wonderful dog! She loved everyone and everything! She got along with cats and all kinda dogs. She was actually a big baby! We would sometimes foster little puppies for the local SPCA and she would hide from them in the bedroom! She loved to lie on the sofa and her favorite thing in the world was to steal a loaf of bread off the counter! Once, she even got away with a pork roast.
In 2006, (when she was ten years old) she had surgery for a tumor in her belly. They actually ended up having to saw open her pelvis to remove it. She spent about a week at the hospital and then another month or so recuperating at home, but once she was fully healed she was back to her old tricks!
This past summer we found out she had bone cancer in her right front leg. The doctors told us the only treatment option would be amputation but due to her size and age, they didn’t think she would survive the surgery. We brought her home and cooked homemade meals for her, gave her lots of love and kept her as comfortable as possible. Despite a bit of a limp, she still wanted to take the daily walk up the hill of our street. She was such a trooper!
2 weeks ago, on one of our walks, she fell down in a neighbor’s yard and almost couldn’t get back up. She spent that night with her head in my lap, looking up at me, as if to say, “I think that was my last walk, Mom.“ Sadly, it was.
Two days later, we took her to the vet and had her put to sleep. She had just turned thirteen on June 9th.
I just wanted you to know that she was such a wonderful companion and to thank you for giving us the opportunity to have her in our lives. We loved her and miss her very much.
I’ve enclosed a picture of her. It was taken about two weeks before she died.
Sincerely,
Linda Knezovich
