Our long lost friend.

Many of you may not know that Bella was not the first dog in our lives here in Richmond. Before we found our little fluff, Brian lived with a bunch of boys in a big dirty house (if any of them every try and tell you it was clean, DON’T believe it!), so of course they needed a big manly dog. Then came Miller. When they got him at the SPCA they were told he was a lab/boxer mix, and would probably end up being about a hundred pounds, well not so much. We jokingly used to say Miller was half lab, half Clifford (you know, the big red dog). He was huge, like 130+ pounds huge! And when Bella came along, it was instant love. In all his huge glory he loved her and was very aware that she was a tiny 3 pounds when she first came home. They would run and run and run, and to keep it fun, she would hide underneath him so he couldn’t find her!

Tiny baby and her BFF!
Sadly though the boys started to move on, Brian and I moved in together, and the others eventually parted ways as well. They all decided it would be best to find Miller another home. It was a really hard decision, so much so that we considered taking the big guy with us to our tiny apartment, but decided ultimately it wouldn’t be fair to him to be so cooped up. Luckily Brian was able to find Miller a home with a woman named Annette and her 8 year old son Timmy. It was sad to say goodbye but we have always hoped Miller was living a happy new life with his new family!

Then a few days ago out of nowhere Annette emailed Brian, they were going to be in Richmond, and she wanted to know if we wanted to visit with Miller! Needless to say we were super excited and planned on bringing Bella too! But it has been over a year and a half since we have seen him, Bella isn’t a puppy anymore, and we were worried he wouldn’t remember her, and more so that since her attack, she would be scared of him and his size. I will let the pictures speak for themselves, they didn’t exactly remember each other right away, but I think they may just have fallen in love again!




As you can see, Miller is doing wonderful! He has settled into family life very well, and it turns out he was having surgery for a torn ACL at almost the exact same time Bella was having her surgeries last summer! He is so well behaved, healthy, and happy. It was such a good visit and I think we know now that it was the absolute best decision we could have made to let him go. Hopefully we will have more visits soon, I know Bella certainly enjoyed herself, so much so that she had to spend the whole afternoon sleeping it off!

They didn't even want to say goodbye!