| Kloshe Wapsini (Beloved Little Girl in the Sehaptin
language of the Yakama Indians of Washington State in the U.S.) spent
the first eight months of her life in a crate with her sister Mollie at
what is called a puppy mill. They were born in April of 1991 and rescued
in December by the Dandies-In-Distress team from the Dandie Dinmont
Terrier Club of America. Mollie was placed with a California family
almost immediately. But Kloshe was adopted twice and sent back before
going to live with her "forever family," Robert and Bronwell
Bond in Pennsylvania. Kloshe’s new life brought many adventures of
travel around the United States and she began to write letters to her
dear friends in the rescue rehabilitation home. Through these letters
that appear in the "Dandie Dithers Newsletter," many have come
to know and love her. In 1998 word came that Kloshe’s sister Mollie
had developed glaucoma and was blind in one eye. The next year Mollie
lost her sight completely and Kloshe also revealed she was to be
stricken with this affliction of life altering consequence. In 2000
Mollie had to be put down with another ailment and Kloshe lost her other
eye to glaucoma. Her family and friends mourn for all Dandies who come
to this affliction through no fault of their own. It is a random
occurrence in the breed, though Kloshe’s and Mollie’s pedigree
reveal both of their parents had glaucoma manifest in them, so the
sisters received a strong possibility of succumbing to the affliction
also. Lest anyone feel inordinate sympathy for Dandies so afflicted,
remember the chorus from "The Lay of the Dandie Dinmont
Terrier,"
"Sing hey, sing ho, he’s full of pluck and go, and for any kind of sport he’s very handy! To hunt is his delight, from morning until night! My merry little border tyke, my Dandie!
This is how Kloshe still lives her life. May we all rejoice, but eradicate this affliction! Bronwell Bond
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