thank you, everyone, for your kind words and telling me i shouldn't feel guilty (even though i still do... i realize i probably shouldn't....)

last night we took brie for a walk and she loved it! it was hard though cuz we are used to each of us having a dog... not just me.... then all three were hanging out watching tv with us last night! (i always loved when the 4 of them would be in the same room instead of spread all over the house!) brie always did follow us around the house "like a puppy dog".. but she seems to be doing it even more so..... and she's taken to laying (lying?) in tyler's favorite spots... i think she misses him, too! and she doesn't spend hardly any time outside (they LOVED being outside together in the cooler/cold weather! used to have to make them come in the house in the winter! now brie goes out... does her thing and is barking immediately to come back in! she never did like being outside alone.. always wanted tyler out there even if they were just sleeping in separate areas of the yard! but that's ok... i like her in the house laying (lying? which is the right use?) near me/us!)

i feel especially bad for brie cuz part of the reason we got tyler was as a companion for her... someone for her to play with! now she's back to being an only dog she is pretty self-centered... she's a very "me me me, dog! but that's her personality! she normally does good at entertanining herself... loves to get her stuffies or balls and play/kill them! but one sammy is just not enough! and we met and fell in love with tyler's "brother"... exact same breeding 1 year earlier... bonnie wouldn't let us have WIL at the time! lol! so when we found out she was breeding again... we were #1 on her list for a pet puppy... (we don't show) bonnie has the magic touch with dogs.. and tyler (as well as wil and all the rest of bonnie's dogs) was just the sweetest, most loving dog!!!!!