Thank you again and again for your sweet thoughts. Though I was expecting Gunner's passing, it still was a most dreadful blow and has left me completely gutted. It is a bit difficult to fully participate on the forum just now, but like all things, I expect it will get better with time.
Gunner, her mother and brothers landed on my door step because they belonged to a busy actor who didn't have time at the moment to look after them himself. The woman hired to look after them (supposedly a trained vet assistant) lost 2 of the puppies in 4 days so he brought them to me. They were in a slimy crate, all of them had mange, worms and ringworm. I was only supposed to look after them for a couple of weeks but it ended up being 3 1/2 months. As a thank you for taking care of his little family, Barry gave me Gunner. More fun than a barrell full of monkeys is a room full of bulldog puppies!
The dark puppy now lives in France with some actor there. Don't remember who. And the brown and white one lives with a well known doctor in Texas.
Again, thank you for the poems, the messages and notes. They mean so very much.
Joyce