Epitaph for a Dog

My uuu ("uuu" would be pronounced "ooo" for folks who speak English)
It was a nick name derived out of several other nicknames:
Uudy, Roo, Rudy Rudowski or just plain Rudy (spoken in a slightly high-pitched, Finnish accent baby voice)

Rudy passed away unexpectedly on Sunday August 14, 2005.
She was actually my mom's dog in the end - but she started out as mine. We picked up Rudy from some shady place on the "other" side of town in May of 1993.
She was the prettiest puppy of the bunch. Rudy was always getting compliments on her good-looks.
When we first picked her up, she had a bit of a sore tummy from the moose-meat sausages her owners were bbq-ing...
for 5 week old puppies!!! (these people were most certainly on crack).

Rudy was no ordinary dog. She was highly sensitive..and could almost say "out" when she wanted to go outside.
Rudy was more affectionate than other dogs I've known. She liked to cuddle and get hugs; even from rowdy kids she hadn't seen before. She was gentle but also very excitable. Definately a type-A personality.

Like most dogs however, Rudy loved to eat people-food!! Oh! the teary eyes she would conjure up to get just one lick of a dinner plate. She would wiggle her snout under your arm, rest her chin on your knee and look up at you pathetically.
She would doggie-speak ever so softly to melt your heart. We taught her some tricks; some she figured out on her own.
She could dance and speak and howl on command.

She would obediently go down to the basement when told in finnish: "Mommy is going to the store"
Even until her dying day, she played ball enthusiastically in her back yard.

Rudy will be greatly missed.