[Michael Romanos]

I think KatC summed it up very well. Take that Deb as the feelings from 'downunder.'

My mother was going to live well past 100 and she was nearly 95 and still driving a car and living at her home, and doing everything for herself - including cooking large meals for grandchildren and great grandchildren and looking after a Peke dog and was a whizz at scrabble and cards and a great fan of the All Blacks (NZ rugby representative team). And what happened. She suddenly didn't feel too well. She was diagnosed with cancer and within a few months this person who was unlike most 94 year olds who are confined and remote and vacant, was dead.

So it is with Riley only more so. She was struck down with a cancer that showed no pity, and she was in a prime age which enabled her to have a stronghold of knowledge and wisdom and a physical presence and be treated with much respect and love.

Deb went the extra mile when the situation was grim and she knew just when she had to pull the plug. It is a sad time for Go Corgi, No one will replace THE RILEY. But we hope A RILEY will emerge from the heavens above and light up the lives of any lucky person/people wherever they may be, just as THE RILEY did.