Ripley

Dear Dr. Forslund,

Thank you so much for calling me the next day about Ripley.  I think you are one of the most sensitive vet's I have ever come across.

As you can imagine, Ripley's loss is devastating to me, and I am just trying to weather through this week.  I am attaching a picture of Ripley and Max (my Border Collie) with a little true story that I posted on facebook.  Both of these dogs meant so much to me and my family.  They were part of my "young" family, when all my children were at home and when they were alive those memories were especially vibrant and now most of the kids have left home, and my sweet dogs are gone, too.

"When Ripley was 4 months old, she found a loose board on the back fence. The fence backed up to a slope, a culvert that ran along the back of our neighborhood culdesac and she made her way to freedom. Max who was 7 and had never run away before, followed her. Christie posted this picture on every tree and lamppost in the Nohl Ranch area and two days later a woman called who had found Max with a little blonde lab that would not come to her, so we got Max back. Two days after that Ripley came back through the loose board in the fence. She'd tracked herself back home. That won't happen this time though...we love you, Ripley."

I will recommend your loving service to everyone I know who is in this circumstance.  Thanks to your husband also.

Patricia Dischner
Orange