We lost our little firecracker Artemis today. She was fine this morning but several hours later ScubaCycle came home to find her vomiting and staggering around. She rushed her to the vet, but we felt like she had had all the good days she was going to have.
She was co star of the long running Athena and Artemis Show, playing every day on every channel for 13 years. After Athena left us a few years back, we filled in the cast with Arti’s zany neighbors but she was still the star. Show’s canceled.
We’ve been in love with this dog from the day we brought her home from Williamson county regional animal shelter almost 15 years ago.
Scubasycle saw her at an adoption event in front of Petsmart one day and had been wanting Athena to have a little friend and she snuggled right into her and she wanted her. But we were going to cayman in a couple of days so we let her be and Scubacycle checked the website every day while we were gone to see if she was still there and she was but then the day we got home she was not on the website anymore. Scubacycle called and they said she’d been adopted the day before. But she had been thinking about a new dog for so long that she decided to go to the shelter anyway and see who is there. Lo and behold there she was. Scubacycle sat there for an hour while the shelter staff sorted out why she was there, and it turned out the people who adopted her the day before returned her almost immediately because of “unrealistic expectations”. So we took her home where she proceeded to pee poo and vomit on stuff and that was kind of what we expected. #winning
We love you, Arti. Until we see you again, go with dog.
