I had a baby girl named Betty who liked 2 days being 15 years old when she went to the Rainbow Bridge. I had her since she was a puppy. She saved my son from a fire and was the delight of my life. She loved to go fishing with me. She was diagnosed with kidney failure and it just about killed me to part with her. My vet advised me to put her down before she had seizures. She had quit eating and most of her body had shut down but her heart and her lungs. She was so sick she couldn't stand up. I would have gladly traded places with her. She was the sweetest little dog and had the sweetest disposition even when she was sick. Some people think I am nuts but I had her picture made and I am going to put it on my wall along with some of her stuff. I may get another doxie but I will always miss her. No matter how sick she was she would always wag her tail when my husband or I would pet her or talk to her. She was the first dachshund I ever had that liked water. She would get in the water up to her chest and guard the fish in the fish basket. She even caught her own fish one time. She was a longhaired black and tan. I hope she crossed over the Rainbow Bridge and is up there with the male who didn't survive the fire and that she is young and strong again and happy. I have a locket with her picture and hair in it. I wear it when I go fishing. She went o the Rainbow Bridge on my birthday. I loved her so much that I could not watch her struggle to stand and know she was miserable and in pain. I love you Betty girl. Mama and Daddy miss you and would like to have kept you forever healthy. Hope she is there to meet us when we go.