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Bill Pickles and Lily
Our pets are our kids...

Baby LilyXmas Lily

This is our new baby Lily! Lily is a black Lab mix. We adopted her at 8 weeks old from the Humane Society. She is small, like a little "mini Lab" and is sweet and crazy! On the left is Lily the day we brought her home. On the right, a Christmas Picture of her.

Lily in ChairLily 7 months

Here she is at 7 months old. She's only about 35LBs. Mini-Lily-Loo!

Jazz (left) is a Siamese mix. He also goes by Fatty and J-Master-J.
Java is a chocolate Siamese and my needy boy. AKA, Kitten and Meezer.


Pickles (Pickle-pie) is an apricot fawn Pug. Pickles as a puppy when we first brought her home

Jazz and Java

The loving and licking always ends in somebody putting the chomp on someone
else. Java gets so needy he'll try to get attention from the dogs if I don't pet him.

Pickles in her Hoodie

Yes, I dress my poor pets up. I love how offended Pickles looks in the Bee costume. Check out Pickles in her Hoodie!

Daffodil 1997-2008
Our Yellow Lab, she was a rescue, also called Naf-o-nil.
We lost her to cancer in October of 2008. She was the sweetest and best girl ever. She is missed every day. As sad as we are that she is gone, we are so very, very grateful to have had the joy of her living her life with us. She was our sweet, sweet girl.


Charly Adriff-Upmeyer 1965-2007
We lost Charly in October of 2007. She was a wonderful, fiesty bird, and
loved her daddy Bill very much. She was with him when she passed, and for that
we are grateful. Bill was blessed to have her for 21 years and she had been a part
of my life for the 14 years I had been with Bill. We miss her very much.
She was a Good Bird.

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