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Rest in Peace Old Friend

August 17, 2013 – September 30, 2025

Almost exactly twelve years ago, Ken woke up one morning and said, “Did you see what was in the paper last night? Labrador puppies in Riverside!” I knew we were in for a long day. After Sam, our original lab, had passed in June, we had agreed to get another labrador retriever. And here was the opportunity. If you’ve ever gone to see puppies, you know it’s nearly impossible to resist them and a couple weeks later, we brought home little Sky. Night Sky Star Shine. She was a dog who lived to please us. She was powerful and worked as hard as she could at whatever she knew to be the task. She worked through pain and rarely let us know how much it hurt. If she’d had better trainers, she would have ribbons for everything. She was the last of the original Good Girls’ Club. She was an excellent retriever, an entertaining and sometimes good agility dog and a great companion and adventure and travel partner. And she was the best dog at the stick game. Even in her last couple painful weeks, she went out of the way to show the others how it was done. She was a good dog.

I miss her so much.