Hello gentle readers! I hope you're doing well. October was an okay month although we lost a member of our family. Our hound-lab mix, Sheldon passed away suddenly the morning of October 12th. He was a rescue from our county animal shelter and was with us for ten years. He was a real sweetheart and our only male dog. A sweet boy, he was gentle and kind. When we first rescued him, he was afraid of everything--people, other dogs, automatic doors. We even lost him once for