This is Missy sitting in "Missy pose", and here is her story told to me by her owner: "She is about 15 years old, and I've had her for 12 years. She may not look it, but she's a tough girl. She has congestive heart failure, and her heart is extremely enlarged. She's suffered two heart attacks, and both times, the vet believed she wouldn't survive, but she beat the odds. She's still very active considering her age and health issues. One of the pictures is of her sitting, and you'll notice she's a little lopsided. Before she ended up in the shelter, she had a bone disease, and the treatment was to remove the ball of her hip. Fun backstory on the picture of her looking out the airplane window - My family and I ended up in an odd situation where we were living in a travel trailer, traveling around the country. Fenrir was still alive, and we took him with us, but with Missy's advanced age and health issues, we had left her with my parents, intending to pick her up and bring her to our new home at the end of our travels. 2 weeks before I was supposed to pick her up, she had her second heart attack, and the vet told me if I wanted to say goodbye I better get there fast. I flew to my parent's place and made arrangements for in-home euthanasia, but Missy had other plans. Every hour I was there, she improved, so I switched gears and started working on how to get her home. In the airplane picture, she's flying home with me about 72 hours after the heart attack that was supposedly the end for her. That was 10 months ago :)" I feel honored to be the artist to draw this resilient gal who obviously means the world to her owners.
