Maia


Maia

Maia Twenty Tauri, July 2009 - 15 March 2018


Maia took a long path to our house, rescued from a puppy mill on a Montana Indian reservation, through a Montana rescue organization, on to Rocky Mountain Great Dane Rescue, and then to a series of foster homes and a trial placement that didn't work out. But she has settled in nicely here at the ranch, and is getting along nicely with Rigel and the cats (and starting to learn her way around goats and horses!)

Maia came to us as "Mya", and responded to her name. But since she doesn't know how to spell, we changed her name to "Maia", one of the beautiful blue stars in the Pleiades, and the eldest of the Seven Sisters of Greek myth.

We lost her very suddenly, with no warning at all. We were out walking her and Ares, and she bounded off towards him to play and simply fell over dead. She had no apparent health problems. Most likely it was a hidden heart issue, an arrhythmia that stopped her heart. Quick and painless for her, but a terrible shock for us.