Moses spent most of the day at the Cottle residence in Jamestown, Rhode
Island, where his litter sister, Tory, lives. Piber, Moses, and I went
there to attend a Bernese club draft work clinic, with Piber participating
and pulling her tiny plastic kiddy wagon. Moses was permitted free access
to the extensive, fenced property, which stretches right to the ocean's
edge. He loped about the grounds, and I took numerous photographs of him
with the Newport (RI) Bridge in the background. At one point, Marjorie and
Chris instructed the group to heel and Moses looked like a king appraising
his subjects as he relaxed on the grass in the middle of the circle.
My heart filled with pure joy to see him grinning with happiness, enjoying
the day, oblivious, as it seemed were most clinic participants, to the
recent (11/2002) loss of his leg (osteosarcoma). Piber's utter joy when she
discovered and went wading in the Bay and Moses' spirit singing so loudly
and joyfully made the three of us wish that this perfect day would never
end.
Lisa Allen
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