Rhumba And Candy Are Home Again

If I wanted to joke around with friends and family, I could show them a picture on my cellphone of my new white Pekingese. She is a beautiful all white dog the size of a real dog and what my first dog Lady Candace of Pickwick looked like. This new dog is almost a complete replica of Candy as she was fondly called. The new one Candy Number Two is a dog created by a talented artist in Arizona who I found on the Internet when I typed in Pekingese dogs. I thought I would have a stuffed animal looking like that dog.

However I had my choice and I chose Kathy Kreations in Arizona and this lady makes a dog so real, so life like and so gorgeous, you want to pet her, talk to her, and give her food and to hug her. However she is not real. I have to keep telling myself she is a copy made to custom order for me resembling our dear Candy. She is standing on her legs, her face so real it is like Candy is not gone as she has been for about 20 years. She is not a stuffed animal, she is a work of art and the price quite economical for a custom made art piece.

Art piece she is for sure and I have her sitting on the top part of a gorgeous breakfront piece of furniture and when Candy meets her new sister this coming week, Rhumba who is being created for me as I am writing this and she will be delivered to her new home probably on Wednesday all away from her beginning home in Arizona. Rhumba is a caramel color whereas Candy is pure white like a candy fluff on a stick at a state fair this summer. Rhumba moved her hips (do dogs have hips?) as if she was performing the ballroom dance that I love the most, a Rhumba.

We already have a beautiful large painting of Rhumba and Candy that my daughter painted.

We never had a dog and when my brother married and he had children and a dog and I wanted to visit him, I had to call in advance to advise him of my visit. Then he would put the doggie in the cellar because Aunt Elita was kind of afraid of dogs then. When we bought Candy in around 1975, I learned to love these dogs as everyone else does. I knitted both of them sweaters to keep them warm at night while they slept.

 After Candy passed on, we bought Rhumba, so they each lived 11 years which is many more in years in doggie world. We all loved them in different ways. Candy was mainly with me all day as the children were in school and my husband worked long hours. Candy loved to watch me make green salads from scratch and I would throw her some cleaned lettuce leaves and she loved it. When I would put my thin scarf on my head, she knew I was going out in the car and she wagged her tail to let me know she was too. When she passed on at eleven, we were devastated and a few days later we purchased Rhumba from an ad in the newspaper.

When we went to the house to buy her, she was one of five doggies there. Her Mom was there and four dogs. Rhumba ran out to us and practically jumped in my daughter’s arms. She was the chosen one and home she went with us sleeping in my daughter’s room that night and crying some I guess she was overwhelmed and she lived for eleven years too. Pekes have trouble breathing with their tiny noses and their bowlegged legs. We had her operated on with two different vet doctors and she was doing pretty well, but kidney problems finished her off. She loved to jump on the family room sofa and wiggled her body to show my husband she wanted him to pet her. She was easy to love and she loved each of us.

We were so sad, but at this time in our lives as seniors, we are too old to start new with another dog.

So I found Kathy on the internet and these dogs are so real, it brings back memories of our beloved two animals. No longer was I ever afraid of another dog since I had bestowed on me and us the love of a dog for us and us for her. So when Rhumba arrives next week, she will grace our breakfront or perhaps even our baby grand piano on its top shelf, where she will reside a long side of her sister Candy and she will look over the living room where she knew she better not run through. She was allowed in the kitchen and she sat grandly in her bed/basket wearing a jacket I had knitted for her with love.

So Rhumba will join her sister who she never knew and we will pretend the two dogs are back with us in their own home to be loved again as if they were alive.

If you want Kathy Kreations, you can reach her at 1-602 547 8760 and mention me and my Pekes and perhaps you too will be happy purchasing one too. There is a saying that says “we can’t live possibly our life without an attitude of gratitude.”

I am grateful in getting my two Pekes back, if only in pretend mode, because they look so real, it is believable and thrilling. I am happy I found Kathy to bring these two back to my husband and me.

 Now when the younger grandchildren come to visit, they will ‘see Rhumba and Candy' who they had heard sweet stories about from their dad who lived here with his sister and us for a total of 22 years. My older grandson knew Rhumba for a few years when he was about three. She was intrigued to see a young child because she was use to being around only adults.

As the saying goes, a dog is man’s best friend and also the whole family. Bravo Rhumba and Candy, you are home again.