Last Sunday was a miserable day. It was raining so much.  Most of the day Penny and I were in our cage, from what I heard mom say, they had to go to Philadelphia so Katie could get some kind of award.  I think mom called it a Gold Girl Scout Award or Girl Scout Gold Award.  Either way, they ventured out in the nasty rainy weather, I was very concerned for their safety but they came home safely with a bunch of things. Then in the evening Katie locked us out of the living room.  She wanted to set all her certificates on the floor and didn't want us to walk on them.  All she would have to do is ask, and I wouldn't have walked on them.  Oh you know what, Penny would never have understood, so I guess it's okay that she locked us out of the living room while she took some pictures. I found this picture on their computer. I guess this is the picture mom took of Katie and all her certificates.

Today I would like to take time to reflect on the Titanic.  So many people became victims of this great disaster.  Have you thought about the dogs on board?  According to records I have found, there were at least 12 dogs on board, of which only 3 survived.  The three dogs that survived were little dogs and they were smuggled onto the lifeboats.  "Lady," a Pomeranian who had been bought in Paris, had shared the cabin with her master, Miss Margaret Hays, who wrapped Lady in a blanket when ordered to evacuate.  The other two dogs were a Pomeranian (name unknown) owned by the Rothschilds Family. and a Pekingese named "Sun Yat-Sen"owned by Henry Harper.
    Other dogs that were on the ship who did not survive included a toy poodle, a Fox Terrier named "Dog" and a Airedale named "Kitty."  There was also a Great Dane owned by 50 year old Ann Elizabeth Isham, who adored her dog and visited it each day in the ship's kennel.  When she was evacuating she asked to take her dog.  She was told the dog was too large, so she refused to leave without her dog and even get out of the lifeboat.  Several days later, the body of a woman clutching a large dog was spotted by crew of the recovery ship. 
   I need to mention that generally there was a cat kept by the crew on board ships to help with the mouse population aboard ship.   It was said that there was a cat with young kittens aboard this ship when it started its voyage,  but when the ship arrived in Southampton she was seen disembarking.  She retrieved all her kittens and disappeared.  Did she have some sort of premonition about the voyage?
  So please, today as you remember the human victims of the Titanic, also remember the dogs victims of this horrible disaster! 
 RIP my dear friends. In heaven we shall meet!