Mindy was my Father's Day gift in 1984, I found her at the local SPCA. She was between 6 and 7 years old, but the most beautiful dog I had ever seen. I brought her home that day, I had too after she kissed my hand so gently. We had many good time together, and she was always there for me during the bad times. She helped raise a puppy for us in 1991, and she was a great teacher. As the years went by she starting getting a little slower, but she was going good. In January of 1998 she starting to bump into things, and would no longer come to my call. Her advanced years had finally caught up to her, she was going blind, and deaf at the same time. Now it was my other dogs turn to help her, and they tried their best. Mindy got the point were all she would do is sleep, she was no longer living, just existing. I knew the time had come, and the Vet told me that she should not have lived as long as she did, she was around 20 years old. That difficult day came for me on March 7, 1998. I took her to the Vet, around 11:00 a.m. after we had spent the morning hours together alone. We sat on the couch together, and she laid her head in my lap, and we said our good-byes. When I got to the Vet, the second hardest decision in my life had to be made, was I going to stay with her, or leave her there. She was always there for me, now it was my time to be there for her. The Vet came in, and administered the shot, she never even flinched, all she did was kiss my hand in the same way she did the day we met. Soon she was gone from my life, but she will never be gone from my heart. Mindy was the best friend that anyone could have had the pleasure to share lives with. GOOD-BYE OLD GIRL, I'LL ALWAYS LOVE YOU, AND ONE DAY WE WILL BE TOGETHER AGAIN.