This memorial website was created for Bailey Mack Brown who was on this Earth from around 1996-August 21 2011. Bailey was found starving and beaten going through trash cans in November 1998 when she was adopted by me and has been one of the three best things to ever happen to me. Bailey was so afraid for the first several months that she would be beaten for anything that she would drop on her belly and urinate then crawl to my feet and grovel.
It took a lot of love and patience, but I had just been medically discharged from the Army from a serious accident so I was healing too and had all the time in the world for her. Bailey went from being a skinny, terrified, unwanted pup to being the extremly loved, pampered best friend ever. A year after finding each other Bailey and I moved from Kansas back home to Hampton, VA. She loved the water so our first week home my brother and I took her to a local private beach, she jumped into the surf for hours. Bailey was the dog everyone knew and adored. She rode in the car when I ran errands, we’d take walks along the beach tossing the tennis ball into the water. Families would come along, the kids always loved her and would throw the ball for her before they moved along.
We’d come home to our appartment and a cat and she’d eat, watch tv on the couch with me, then curled up on the bed next to me each night. A few years later we met her daddy who had never had any pet and was afraid of dogs from a young age. Needless to say he fell in love with her too. After a year of dating we got engaged and soon after moved into a townhouse.
Her daddy would feed her steak from his plate, he would take her out to run off leash at night and they would do sprints back and forth next to the townhouse. Daddy had fallen in love with German shepherds because Bailey was such a beautiful soul and the perfect dog so he assumed all GSDs were so perfect. He wanted a puppy of his own and that’s when Bailey’s BIG little brother came into our lives. She was a natural dog mommy and Ares adored her, we hoped that Bailey’s perfect nature would rub off, but Bailey really was one of a kind. Because of the abuse such a wonderful creature endurred at the hands of humans, I became very involved in dog rescue…German shepherd in particular.
I had rescued many dogs in my life along with my mother who also inherited the dog rescue gene from her mother who I never met, but a German shepherd puppy named Fritz was rescued from certain death by her and ended up as my first dog until I was eight…Fritz was 17! Bailey and I worked with German shepherd rescue groups, she loved the attention and hanging out in public being adored by children, adults and dogs. I couldn’t really temperment test other dogs by her because all dogs liked her, regardless if they were normally dog agressive.
Max came along somewhere around 2004, Ares was a bully to the always shaking shepherd rescue…Bailey was her usual loving calming mommy dog. Brenna was 3mos old in Feb. 2006 when she was rescued from a gas chamber and she latched on to Bailey to the point that Bailey was getting annoyed, which was funny because Bailey didn’t get annoyed. They became inseperable! Bailey and Brenna 10yrs apart look like litter mates! Life has been fun… always playmates around, special treats like sausage,bacon and steak from daddy mostly.
A about five moths ago Bailey was cying and kept falling down outside, so I took her to the vet. We started Adequan injections, the vet said her body and bloodwork were that of a much younger dog. Just a few weeks ago she was crying more and was unsteady falling more. So we got the Bottums Up harness and more meds from the vet. A week later she had to be carried back and forth to the yard because she was in so much pain and the harness wasn’t enough.
I was desperate, it was only her legs so I got a wheelchair for her. We thought a bone would break trying to get her out when it was uncomfortable and obviously painful when she let out a horrible cry. I cried HARD. I knew what she needed and that wasn’t to be kept in so much pain anymore when she had been so wonderful to me, she deserved a dignified end. The Vet, who we had become close to trying to get Bailey’s legs better over her last few months, came to our home after a huge bacon&sausage dinner the last night and cheesy eggs, sausage&bacon for brunch after her regular breakfast. She laid on a thick flannel sheet that I had had almost as long as we were togther. The special sheet laid ontop of her favorite bed where I laid with her for some time crying and hugging my baby for the last time. She was given pain meds and something to make her less anxious which was the first time I had seen her not panting/crying/anxious from the pain and not understanding why she felt so badly. She passed asleep in my arms as I told her how wonderful she has always been to me and she was going back to God who had sent her to me to save me. No more pain my furry angel baby, mommy will always love and miss you! Not a day will go by without you in my heart and mind. Rest now my angel, you have changed me forever! We will be together again one day, and we will both be free of any pain! Reast in peace now my baby, you touched so many lives you could never be forgotten! Thank you for waiting to go, I needed you when I lost both Aunt Patty and then Aunt Mary lou and all the horrible days from the multiple sclerosis over the summer. I don’t know how I would have made it without my angel!
Rest in Peace Bailey my love. I may have rescued you, but God sent you to save me…you did your job wonderfully! I will miss you so much until we meet again, and niether of us will be in any pain. I love you and always will!
I'll love you forever!
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