Five years ago we lost our boxer Ruger after 15 years with us. We were all heartbroken. We decided we loved having a boxer so much that we looked for another one and found little Harper.
We had to wait a few weeks for her to get big enough to bring home with us. While on a trip to St. George, we decided that Harper would need to bring a friend along with her and so we called them and asked for a second puppy. That is how Toby came to be part of our family.
McKell decided to name him Toby after Toby Keith the country singer (much to my dismay). Toby and Harper quickly became part of the family, but as much as they loved to be with us, they loved each other more. Toby and Harper were inseparable. One time after Landon's soccer game, I decided to walk home with Toby while Ron took Harper home in the car with him. I had to drag Toby the whole way home because he thought we had left Harper at the school and wasn't going to leave without her.
As much as we loved Toby and Harper, it was hard for us to leave them home in their kennels for so long each day while we were gone to work, sports, and other things. We made a really tough decision to "rehome" them. We were lucky to find a family that lives on a horse ranch in Beaver. They adopted both dogs and took them to live in the country. They have been so kind and send us text updates and pictures of the dogs occasionally. We even tried to stop by and see the dogs last month on our way to Las Vegas, but timing didn't work out and we couldn't stop.
Yesterday we received a very sad text from Beaver saying that a mountain lion had gotten in with the horses in the night. Toby and Harper did their job of protecting the land and family and fought with the mountain lion. Sadly, our little Toby didn't make it out of the fight. They said that there was a significant blood trail from the mountain lion going back up the mountain, so we know Toby fought hard.
Even though you have lived away from us, we still think of you as our own and will miss you so much. Love you Toby!
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