It is with a broken heart that I am writing to let you know Shiloh, whom I adopted from Golden Bond on 12/19/2017, passed away on 08/27/24 from heart disease and severe arthritis. I have attached a photo that was taken several months ago when she was much healthier. Golden Bond rescued her from China in early fall 2017 and I adopted her on the spot after a trip to Portland on a dark rainy day in December 2017. It was definitely one of those moments where she picked me as she came straight over to me soon as her foster mom let her outside in the yard. She was skinny and her fur was brittle, but she looked at me with those beautiful brown eyes and it was love at first sight.
With lots of loving care, she blossomed into a beautiful healthy girl with a fur coat so soft and beautiful and cuddly. A couple trips to the ocean beaches the first summer was a new experience for her, and with walks by the lake we lived on, she decided she was not a water dog. She wanted no part of the ocean waves or swimming in the lake. She’d dig in the little pools in the sand at the ocean beaches that the tide left as it went out and wade in the water at the lake but only up to her knees, and that was all the water she wanted to get in. I learned then that not all Golden mixes like water.
Once we all found ourselves in the pandemic and I started working remotely from home, Shiloh and I packed up and moved from Renton WA to Costa Mesa CA in October 2020, and we both loved the weather here so much better as neither her nor I like walking in the cold rain. She was such a trooper on the road trip from WA to CA stretched out across the back seat in her car seat/bed and smelling the unique scents at the rest stops. We moved to a dog friendly community with its own fenced dog park where she could run off leash and play and she blossomed even more into a social butterfly. She was such a sweet, chill kinda girl and she was loved by all who met her……..humans, dogs and cats. She hardly ever barked unless it was necessary, and she was so smart she’d always remember who in the community was good for some attention, and she knew the fun places to go and places not so much fun before I even opened the car door to let her out. I miss her so much and am so lost without my fur baby who was always by my side when working at home and on our walks/travels. She was so special. Shiloh was the second dog I adopted from Golden Bond. My first Golden mix was Spirit who passed away in January 2017.

Thank you for blessing me with my sweet Shiloh. She has webbed her spot in my heart forever! ❤️
Sincerely,
Janis Johnson

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