I cry. Your expression of your love for Fifi reaches a distant and private place in my soul. My lose was two year ago-- and still I cry. Annubis was a black lab, hugh of body and hugh of heart. Despite all my faults, he loved me and forgave me for all my wrong doings and slights. I can never forget the years that he and his yardmate, a female back lab, quartered the desert on our uncountable walks. His body was left with the vet., but his collar and tags are buried in the desert near his favorite walking area. Now his yardmate, Nephriti, has an inoperable cancer. As i pet her large black head and look into those hugh loving brown eyes, again I cry. It is my duty to balance my love and my needs against her joy of life and her pain. I shall honor my duty and I shall cry. Yet, even as I sorrow, their is still a surcease to my pain as the thoughtless abandonment of pets as cast on my shores two more dogs and six loving cats. My life abounds in love, yet--i cry. lloyd