Honored Pet Memorial Wall

Our beloved Watty, your heart was too big for this world. Thank you for 10 perfect years. You were born the bravest of German Shepherds, sweetest of American Staffordshires, and most regal & snobby of the Great Pyrenees. We will never forget your love stares, love gulps, sneaky kisses, airplane ears, and goofy smiles. You were kind to all people and animals, and always tried to make everyone laugh, even your fellow doggies by your howls and hoots at them. You were a CARD alright. From the moment you picked us as your family at SAVE, we couldn’t help but fall in love with you. You soon forgot your first three years as a shelter dog and were so proud to have your very own forever family and a forever mommy. How lucky we were to have found you. You were our family’s glue and brought us nothing but pure joy. We will never forget finding our own secret trail in the Adirondacks, where you could roam off leash; swimming and river rafting together in the summer; apple picking in the fall; sledding in the snow on the golf course; walks to the pond; Rulfs Orchard; Ralph’s Ices; our ferry rides and long car trips, and how you loved froggies and “frogging” (watching the frogs jump in the pond). You were most fond of big, green fields; weekend trips; squeaking tennis balls and stuffed animals; herding your cats, Jenny and Winnie; the Lake Placid dog park; ice cream; presents and holidays; the seashore; playing with the hose; spin jumping; rolling in the grass; snuggling; and sleeping upside down in our arms. You loved the deer family that would visit us daily at your Adirondack home, especially Sweetie-bird, watching the birdies and squirrels from the window, and the nightly visit from the raccoon family. Along with your incredible sweetness, you were a true guard dog without our even asking you to be. Your only true fears were feathers, thunder, and fireworks. Our great joy was seeing how over the years you learned to let your guard down a little, although until the end you always loved to give the UPS man and the gas station workers a good talking to. Watson, you truly are one of a kind — an irreplaceable, extraordinary being — beloved beyond words by your family. We will miss rolling you over every day, holding you in our arms, hugging your big neck, and getting kisses after work. We are all very heartbroken without you, and further devastated that Hemangiosarcoma ripped you from us with so little time. We will try to be the best we can be in your honor and to help other animals as you would have wanted. We will try to remember the joy and happiness that were the majority of your life, and not the sadness we have felt these last weeks in losing you. We wish we could have given you all the things you loved for longer here on earth. We will cherish our most beautiful last day together, the first day of spring weather in Hopewell, when you sat with us outside on the farm under the trees, listening to the birds singing, with the leaves falling on your nose. We did not know it was your last day, but it was the perfect kind of day for such a perfect creature. We hope where you are now is better beyond even our wildest imaginations, that you are at peace, free of all pain, and that you are being taken care of by Jenny, Yaya, and Chocolate. Watch over us forever as our guardian angel. We will look for you in the stars and the clouds, in the ocean waves and the blowing winds on the mountains. We miss you for now our sweetest and most loving friend, and long for the day we can see you again. — “And Yes, we know you are with us. You are our moon. Our Sun, you are here with us. We’ll go with you on ships across seas, which we know exist no longer. With you, we shall experience them again.” —

You will be missed and remembered always Walnut !

In the 10 years we had Porter, he brought so much joy to our lives. He was taken from us far too soon. We will love and miss you forever. When the question is asked “Who’s a good boy?” the answer will always be “Porter”. He was the best. Rest Easy, Porter Boy.

Tullamore aka “Tully dog” you were the best friend our family could ever have Rest In Peace old friend you will be missed.

Missing you! Rest easy buddy. Xoxo

The loss is immeasurable, but so is the love left behind. My sweet girl- we have loved you and will miss you terribly. We were so incredibly lucky to have you for over fifteen years. Rest easy my little girl.

Leo, the goodest boy, beach lover, ice cream enthusiast, basset sprinter, drool slinger, hater of car rides, incessant whiner, cheek blower, lap napper, spiteful anger pooper, picker outer of peas and carrots from chicken and rice bowls, one-time model, howler alonger to Sam Smith Christmas songs, perpetually undecided about whether he was coming inside or outer, brother to Peanut, and nana to Emmy, passed peacefully in his sleep in the morning one day shy of his 15th birthday. Despite heart problems, cancer, bloat scares, and losing his back legs twice, he went out like a champ in the comfort of his own bed at home, in the same exact position that he spent 22 out of 24 hours even on his best days. We know he’ll always be with us, both in our hearts and because his needle hair will furever be woven into every last textile we’ve ever owned until the end of time. With his last breaths, he left us one last giant drool puddle on the rug to remind us of the good times when we lived in midtown and Leo would do an iconic Basset shake and slime the backs of the super serious suits waiting to cross the street, or when we lived near a modeling agency in Gramercy Park and he would do the same to all the fancy models, or when we lived in California and –really, he would literally do that to everyone. We’ll also fondly remember every time he’d nuzzle his head against our legs exactly right as we were trying to leave the house and we’d have to go change our drool and hair-covered pants. He had a long wonderful life, filled with long walks through Central Park, and along Santa Monica Beach. He enjoyed lots of ice cream, stolen steaks, and this one time, a 3-lb bag of greenies (cue the explosive green diarrhea) his Basset nose led him to kitchen cabinets and to stranger’s backyard BBQs at his grandma’s lakehouse. Leo was our first baby, and we are so tahnkful he made it long enough to get to love Emmy. Rest in ease, sweet boy. We love you and ’till we meet again. <3

My best friend, the one I grew up with. I love you and miss you every day. Life won’t be the same without you and your big goofy ears and wobbly back legs. 13.5 years still wasn’t nearly long enough. I hope you’re running circles faster than ever with Murphy, eating plenty of your favorite cheeseburgers and French fries. I told you I would love you forever and I meant that, forever. My sweet boy I will see you again, until then I know you will live in my heart.

I have never had such a sweet loving cat like my Sweetie. I will miss you so much, we had breakfast together every morning and you brought your toy mice to bed every night. R.I.P. my sweet little girl. You left to soon at only eight years old but I will see you again.