Fond Memories: Countrywoods Full Of Grace

Gracie was my “miracle” puppy. She was in a litter terribly stricken with Parvo. I only lost a couple to the disease, but Gracie was the worst affected. She went 9 days without food or water, and had developed an abscess from one of the sites where I was injecting water under her skin, which brought more illness.

I had received a new grooming table for Christmas that year, and its first use was to hang the ringers lactate bottle from the arm to re-hydrate her. She survived, and I knew she would never leave here.

I think of it as “But for the Grace of God”, that she survived, hence came the name. At birth it was to be Red Hot Headlines, she would have lived up to that very well, but she answered best to "Gracie Goo".