Tribute to Tayly
- The Tale of Tayly
- After losing our last dog a year and a half before, we wanted to find another wonderful dog to rescue and love.
- The answer was always the same. Either we were too old or too late.
- But in late August 2025, after nearly a year of searching, our dear friend pointed us to a Little Paws Doggie Rescue pup named Elise. She was everything we were looking for: young but not a puppy, people-oriented, good with other dogs, house trained, and oh so cute. We applied and spoke with Debra, the owner of Little Paws, and miracle of miracles, we found ourselves driving to Sacramento to meet a creature who would come to mean more to us than we ever could have imagined.
- It was love at first sight. The little scruffy fluff ball immediately jumped onto our laps and settled in poking her adorable face into ours and furiously wagging her tail. We discovered Elise had previously been named Bella and Belly and possibly other names. But that endlessly moving tail inspired us to rename her once again. We called her Tayly. Our friends called her the Happiest dog on the West Coast. Tayly was a wonderful companion, sweet, funny, sensitive to our emotions and very, very smart. Her dog door was the entrance to her private outdoor sun spa, she greeted our houseguests with a LOUD enthusiastic welcome, and within months clearly felt this was her home. She spent more and more time in our laps, wanting to be cuddled and following us everywhere.
- She had found her family, and lucky for us, it was our family!
- But now the hard part.
- Tuesday, October 13 brought a beautiful, sun-splashed day as we headed out for our morning walk. Tayly had pooped, met several friends and thoroughly checked her messages. We came to an intersection with stop signs in every direction. A car stopped at the stop sign on the corner diagonally across from us, so we entered the intersection. Inexplicably the car accelerated and struck Tayly’s head, killing her almost instantly. The driver continued on, but two witnesses yelled at him to stop. He did stop and explained he hadn’t seen us because of the sun’s glare. He drove us to the vet, but Tayly was already gone.
- This wonderful dog with an irrepressible spirit deserved a long happy life. Yet she was gone in a heartbeat because of the sun’s glare on a dirty windshield.
- We loved her so very much. She became the center of our lives in barely more than a year. We feel the shock, grief and emptiness that everyone feels when they lose someone they love, and we know that won’t soon go away. Still even the short time we had her made this pain worthwhile. We are so grateful to Debra and Little Paws Doggie Rescue for letting us share Tayly’s beautiful but short life.
- Elaine and Cynthia
Benny was found in this junk pile.
He was brought into Little Paws Doggie Rescue...
...and is now happy with his new family!
Some of our adopted dogs now in loving homes!
Yellow
Betty
Grayson
Sally
Franklin
Kiwi
Gino
Rocky
Pepper
