the best dog, ever....for me.....was Cindy! we both liked to dress up.....Cindy was always entertaining to those who did not anticipate a dressed dog, not on a bun! I have lots of pics of Cindy.....She looks so happy in all of them.....
Halloween night....I dreamt of my then beloved friend and constant companion, when I was still a pre-teen.......Cindy Collie......here, dressed to go out with me on Halloween when I was 11.....Cindy was poisoned with strychnine, on a Halloween night, by an evil old 'neighbor woman' who hated dogs....and children......loving, only, her 'perfect' house and 'perfectly manicured' yard.....and feared that neighborhood children might 'walk on her grass', or their dogs, 'poop/pee' on her manicured shubbery.........I hatched an elaborate revenge scheme to kill her, afterwards; however, my mother dissuaged me.....I was, a couple of years later, appeased... when I read in the news that the neighbor who had murdered my Cindy had been convicted for having poisoned her husband, even before her stint as a dog-killer......her husband's body had been exhumed and his remains were examined during an autopsy.....he had been poisoned....with strychnine.....and a bottle of the poison was found beneath the killer's kitchen sink! The woman was sent to Prison for premeditated murder....
Cindy with my cousin Charlene...on 'Teeter Rock'.....hand-colored with my Marshall Photo Oils painting kit...given to me by my Grandmother, Flora, when I was 12.......
