05/31/2026
March 2012 Missy and I drove to Pittsburgh to rescue Xena. She was in a home where she was loved by her mom, Karen who had lost her husband several months prior. She couldn’t take care of Xena due to a number of health issues. She was saddened to see Xena go. It was easy to tell that she loved Xena.
It was only five years later that we lost Missy, neither Missy or Xena had enough time with each other. Nobody had enough time with either of them…
Over the past year, Xena had been declining slowly from kidney failure. She’d been losing a lot of weight and she has increasingly been wandering around outside at night. 

I decided to end her fight and struggle today. Xena was the sweetest most loving Jack Russell I’ve ever seen.
I love you, Xena. You will always be missed, always loved and never replaced. ❤️😪
