CH Taichung Gotcha at Okumasaa (09/05/1994-02/19/2010 better known as Kaji.
Sometimes even tho all your dogs are special, one comes along that for what ever reason just grabs your heart. Kaji was such a girl.
She was born at our home the very last litter out of Willow who truly was my heart dog. I sold her to a show home and became friends with the women who bought her who lived in Moscow ID. While she had promised to show Kaji soon it became apparent she just could not bring her self to let Kaji go anywhere with out her and she just never could find the time to go. So Kaji lived a quite life on a mountain top in ID for the first 9 years of her life. One day her owner Judy came home to find her house on fire, she managed to get in and while Kaji was unconscious threw her outside while trying to save her cats, ( who were all lost) Kaji survived but to the day she died she was afraid of fires.
In 2004 Judy became very ill with Cancer. Unfortunately she passed away and Kaji came home to me. She was 9 years old. I looked a this little girl who was out of coat and had never seen the inside of a show ring and said to myself " I think I can show you" and show her I did. Her first show I had no idea how she would react. But when the judge walked up to her she wagged her tail! She did not win but I cried that moment as it said so much about her and I just loved her for that.
Kaji survived a vicious attack by 2 dogs that almost killed her, yet she went on to finish her Championship at 12 1/2 years old! the oldest female to ever finish. I was so proud of her and I think she knew she had done something really good.
Last Nov Kaji stopped eating and despite all the blood work and x-rays there was nothing wrong with her except she had CDS, which is much the same as Alzheimer's in people. She was put on a medicine which helped her eat better, but there is no cure for CDS and it progresses in the same way as Alzheimer's does. She always remember me, she still wagged her tail, but she stopped eating and drinking water and no matter how hard I tried or what I did she just looked at it and walked away. It just broke my heart to see her getting weak.
On Friday the 19th of Feb at 15 1/2 years old Kaji laid in my arms as I said good bye through a million tears.
This loving dogs is not for the faint heart, it just hurts terribly when you lose them.
But trade it for anything? no never
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