billy1 300x148 Billy Meggeson (2004 2010)After putting up a brave bat­tle with seri­ous health prob­lems, it is with great sad­ness that we announce the pass­ing of our beloved friend Billy on Feb­ru­ary 2, 2010.

Billy has attended The Orig­i­nal Dog House Inc. since Decem­ber 2004 as a young exu­ber­ant puppy. This mag­nif­i­cent boy with the glis­ten­ing coat and lively eyes was a friend to all who met him.

We, the staff at The Orig­i­nal Dog House Inc. would like to extend our sin­cere con­do­lences to Billy’s dad Sean for the loss of his best friend.

Rest in peace Billy with all the pup­pies you will be meet­ing in heaven.

With Love forever,

The Team at The Orig­i­nal Dog House

maggie 300x208 Maggie Druxerman (1992 2009)It is with great sad­ness that we announce the pass­ing of Mag­gie Drux­er­man on Sep­tem­ber 3, 2009.

For sev­eral years Mag­gie had been attend­ing our day­care and board­ing pro­grams, not to men­tion our groom­ing spa as every lady must. Maggie was quite a char­ac­ter and had per­son­al­ity that always brought a smile to every­one who would meet her.

The staff at The Orig­i­nal Dog House Inc. would like to extend our sin­cer­est con­do­lences to the Drux­er­man fam­ily ( Bon­nie, Peter, Jessie, Cobi and par­tic­u­larly her lit­tle big sis­ter Wavey.)

We will all miss you lit­tle Maggie. Rest in peace lit­tle one. With love from all your friends at The Orig­i­nal Dog House Inc.

ZIP Shama’s pass­ing on June 19th, 2009

Zip 300x225 Zip Shama (1998 2009)The cus­tomers and staff at The Orig­i­nal Dog House Inc. want to extend their most sin­cere con­do­lences to David, Mar­i­lyn and Dash for the recent loss of their girl, Zip.

Zip was a won­der­ful female GSD who was res­cued by David some six years ago from a very bad situation.

Even though Zip was only 5 years old when David orig­i­nally found her, she came to him with a lot of bag­gage; in fact Zip could not have stood a chance of ever find­ing a new home any­where else had David not taken her in.

After 5 years of con­tin­u­ous reha­bil­li­ta­tion Zip became a much more social girl with both dogs and people.

As each day passed Zip’s behav­iour improved as she became more con­fi­dent and real­ized that no one was going to ever hurt her again. She was safe at last with David and her brother Dash.

Over the past five years Zip became a per­ma­nent fix­ture at The Orig­i­nal Dog House Inc. and her func­tion was to be the in-house alarm sys­tem, her job was to alert the staff when­ever some­one would enter the office.

We all miss you very much Zippy.

Rest in peace girl.

With love from all your friends

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