Remembering Sprite: a New Memorial!

Our little Dachshund Sprite passed away 7 years ago today, on July 8, 2013, and we decided to get him a new memorial for the yard. When Franklin passed on May 8 of this year, he found a place that makes the best looking pet memorials, by etching your pet's likeness in granite. So, we decided to do it for Sprite (and Buzz, which you'll see on his birthday at the end of this month). 
  The company that made them is called  Engraved Reflections
www.engravedreflections.com.

  Below is the blog posting about Sprite. What's cool is that he still lets us know he is around.. I wrote about his many signs in my "Pets and the Afterlife" 1 and 2 books. 

About Sprite:  

Sprite July 8, 2013

Sprite in 2010 with a growth on his neck

    When he came to us as a foster dog through Coast-to-Coast Dachshund Rescue in early December 2010,  he was homeless. Sprite belonged to an elderly couple in Ohio. The wife passed in September  and the husband  passed in November 2010, leaving Sprite homeless (until the Rescue heard about him). Sprite wasn't housetrained and hadn't been a vet since 2006, and when we got him he had fleas, worms, we had to have 22 rotted teeth removed, get all his shots, blood tests, heartworm tests, neutering, and we had a large growth removed off his throat.  
  Sprite was obviously NEVER HUGGED, and NEVER HAD TOYS. When we got him he didn't know what a hug was, and Tom said Sprite was unaffectionate and he was right. It wasn't until Dec. 2013 that Sprite would come to me to get his head rubbed. He never played with toys, though. In 2011, Dr. Yates told us that because of his Heart Murmur, if he were to go to another home it would've killed him (the stress), so we ADOPTED SPRITE.
 Story about his teeth removal: http://rob-tom-dolly-franklin.blogspot.com/search?q=sprite+foster+dog