I'll never have another Sian, and there will never be another one like her. She along with the other one who died 4 years ago will be cremated and their ashes mixed with mine, but one of the mystery babies is going to be a pretty black dumbo. She has a wonderful personality and will do fine, not as a replacement but rather 'another' girl. I named her, appropriately, Hellbeast. I'll post a better pic of her later today.
PS: I didn't mean that to seem gloomy, it wasn't meant to be.

gms9810: she looks curious and funny. i look forward to hearing and seeing more of her!

Super cute. Glad you're doing a little bit better.

She is a beauty GMS.
Why did you name her that?

Long story but here goes. From the day their born we take our babies out, put them on the bed and handle and play with them, hence the term 'hand raised.' Usually they're really slow and unsure of themselves.
We decided to take some out the other day and put them on the bed. My wife picked her up, the devil jumped out of her hands and ran over the side of the bed. She was so small that we knew we would never catch her before the dogs did. That meant removing the mattress and springs, also the landfill of stuff we had stashed there. In the process of moving the mattress I broke the ceiling light, scattering glass all over the carpet. After getting the stuff stored under the bed out we saw several napkins etc that a dog shredded. We then had to find shoes to navigate the glass strew floor then got the vacuum. Finally we found her, got the mess cleaned up and bed back together. This took 4 hours. Her mother was the one that got loose and cost us several hours and sore knees. Hellbeast, aptly named.

Plenty of cussing too.

Hellgirl is beautiful, her coat is so dark and shiny.