CATEGORY ONE -Linda Shell Photography-ANIMALS

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AKC Princess Tiger Lily February 20, 1999 - March 20, 2017 Miniture Red BrindleMiniture Dachshund Love Of My Life -Soulmate - Nurse - Companion

- My Lilybelle - Love Of My Life - Soulmate - Nurse - Companion She made sure I was Protected - Loved - Cared for - and Entertained Lily made my life worth living and gave me the Love & Compassion through many many days of loneliness and darkness in my life everyday of our Relationship 18 years of love and dedication
Lily will always be with me for the rest of my life and beyond. She will be in my casket when I go to insure we are together forever.
AKC Princess Tiger Lily
My Lilybelle, ALWAYS with me!
-- Lilybelle-- My Nurse Lily
Lily was filled wity compasion and always knew when I needed that litttle extra Love and Attention. she could really "read" me as I could could to the same for her. We were true Soulmates.
June 28, 2016 just home from being released from the hospital due to my fiirst "Major" stroke and Nurse Lily immediately started tending to me, her "patient" as she always does. She played a major role in my successful recovery. I will alway love and feel her with me. I love you Miiss Lily!
Always with me, especially while recovering from 6/2016 Stroke

Lily's Babies 2001

IMy turn to be Lily's "Nurse" was with here the whole time as she went through Labor & Delivery. At one time I thought she was going to have them in my lap but finally got her to settle down in the hall closet as long as I was settingon the floor next to her. Then 4 little Angel's arrovived and Lily was the model Mommie. I really didn't want Lily to go thru having pups but while visiting a friend Lily partook of some some "Risky Business" - during what I thought was a safe time. Apparently, my count was a few toes short. wasn't long and there came 4 tiny babies. l wanted to keep them all but finally slapped myself silly back to reality. I did settle on keeping my favorite little black and brown who was registared with the AKC as 'Daddy's Little Girl" I called her Little Girl but mostly Girlie. She was Lily & My baby!
AKC "Daddy's Little Girl" aka Little Girl/Girlie
CoCo!
Grandma (Clara) & Step-Grandpa (Jay) came up from Corpus Christi, Texas to meet their new Grand Babies. (I was living ini San Antonio at this time)
Girlie & CoCo resting at the doggie door to be FIRST in!

Lily's Life with Linda

In 1999, livinig in San Antonio, Texas I decided to look for a friend for life. I have had a Dacshund addiction for the breed since childhood, when my first pet was a Black/Brown Mini-Dacshund (Spud). I first saw Lily when she was just 3 weeks old, very tiny and the breeder said she was a "Teacup" but her ignorance proved out she was setting me up. I drifted from " I WANT a dog!" to " "Do I REALLY want a dog?" About 5 months later I finally decided " YES I REALLY WANT THE DOG!!!. Knowing this breeded had Doxie's I called her and found she still had the "Teacup" so I headed to Seguin pretty quick. She brought 6 month old Lily out and she was thin, head down and I sat down on the couch and she planted herself next to me with snout on my leg and both eyes looking up to me with a clear "Please rescue Me Help Me! When my eyes met her, I grabbed her up and said how much She's mine. I went straight to the Vet who found her full of ant bites, mal-nourished from neglect ,abused and a major over-bite from in-breeding. The overbite was from her lower jaw being much shorter than the top which caused her tongue to be too long and was always sticking out. The Vet told me "You won't be able to show her but she'll make you a great companion" I replied "OH, she'll be a Princess the rest of her life with me!!" And so it was...my Princess Tiger Lily (she was a red Brindle and had the stripes so I considered her my Princess until the moment she crossed the Rainbow March 20, 2017. Lilybelle and I had almost 18 years if love and suppor for each other. Miss and talk to her her EVERYDAY!