CASSING WAS OUR ONE AND ONLY FAMILY DOG! SHE WAS A BLACK RETRIVER/LAB MIX. A BEAUTIFULL ANIMAL IN EVERY WAY. SHE WAS BROUGHT HOME BY MY BROTHER ED WHO WANTED A HUNTING PARTNER. I'M NOT SURE HOW GREAT OF A HUNTER SHE WAS BUT SHE DID GRADUATE FROM HUNTING SCHOOL. MY SISTER AND I LOOKED AT HER AS ANOTHER SISTER, YOU KNOW THE ONE DAD LIKED BEST! CASSING WAS HER NAME, BECAUSE DAD AND BROTHER ED, WERE INTO HUNTING AND RELOADING THE SHOT GUN SHELLS, SO SHE BECAME CASSING! SHE LIVED FROM 1994 TO 2000 WITH BOTH MOM AND DAD (JERRY AND LaVONNE) UNTILL MOM PASSED AWAY. THEN SHE LIVED AND BECAME THE WOMAN OF THE HOUSE KEEPING DAD COMPANY IN THERE DAY TO DAY LIFE. I MUST SAY SHE DID A GREAT JOB KEEPING DAD ON A SCHEDULE BOTH FOOD AND NAP TIME! SHE LOVED HER FOOD AND HER SNACKS. AND YOU BETTER NO YOU DID OT MESS WITH HER FOOD, WHETHER SHE WANTED IT OR NOT! NO WAY SHE'D TAKE AN ARM OFF!! AND LET ME TELL YOU DON'T WALK AWAY FROM YOUR HOT DOG WITH ONIONS OR LEAVE YOUR HALF SANDWICH ON THE ARM OF THE CHAIR!!! YUP YOU GUESSED IT.........THEY WERE GONE! BOTH THE HOT DOG AND THE SANDWICH. THE ONLY THING SHE LEFT WERE THE TINY CHUNKS OF ONION ON THE FLOOR! CASSING DID NOT CARE FOR ONIONS ON HER HOT DOG, SO SHE CAREFULLY SPIT EACH LITTLE BIT OF ONION OUT, BUT NOT ONE BIT OF HOT DOG OR BUN REMAINED!!!! HOW SHE MANAGED TO SPIT OUT JUST THE BITS OF ONION, I'LL NEVER NO!! SHE WAS SPECIAL OUR CASSING, DAD'S BUDDY, SHE SURE WAS! WELL SHE LIVED A LONG TIME FOR A DOG, BUT CERTAINLY NOT LONG ENOUGH IN PEOPLE YEARS! IT WAS A GREAT GIFT TO HAVE HER IN OUR LIVES, BUT WE WILL MISS HER HERE ON EARTH FOREVER. WE NO SHE WENT TO BE WITH MOM (LaVONNE) IN HEAVEN AS SHE SO DESERVES TO BE NOW. CASSING YOU WERE A GREAT PET, A WONDERFULL SISTER AND A GOOD BUDDY TO DAD, YOU ROCK!! REST IN PEACE CASSING!!! GET YOUR BUMPER!!! I'LL GET YOUR FOOD!!!