Camping with dogs ca. 1998.
(I've been looking at a lot of older photos lately)

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This is the most impressive three-point tear I have ever seen.

Garnet had gone on a little walkabout, probably with Pickle. She was gone long enough that it had become worrisome, eventually she returned on her own with this crazy torn flap of skin hanging off her back.

I have no idea how this happened, my two guesses were she tried to sneak under a fence and caught a corner, or she had a run-by with another dog who just managed to catch a corner of skin. If you look closely you can see too that she is quite muddy. I can imagine her doing this and thinking, "I better get home."

The vets did a fine job of patching her up. Her bandage was actually made of a baby diaper. If these dogs could talk.

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May 28, 1996 - Aug. 28, 2006.

Garnet was in the same litter as Pickle and Willow (from Toaster and Biscuit). There were three other pups in that group, Pickle was the only male.

Garnet was raised as a pup in Ray's family before he (and then she) came to live with us. She was never much of a sled dog, but she was a real sweetheart too.

From the book (in Ray's writing): 9/7/1996 - killed first mouse.

Garnet died too young when she quickly and unexpectedly developed a hole in her lung that could not be repaired..
"The Little Garn-Garn.".

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