missing pets

Goodbye to the dogs, or, as the Biologist calls them, my siblings. These are Kaya (top) and Ellie Mae. Didn't get good pix of Harley and Frazier.
And speaking of pets, one of my sister's two gerbils, black and white, died of old age recently during a garden club meeting. My sister wrote the following eulogy:

Your fur was light and fluffy,
Your life was filled with seeds,
You loved your little sister,
With unknown wants or needs.

O Yang, you will be mourned,
A lifetime free of sin,
And now we've lost our balance,
Being left only with Yin.

But though you met your end
In the heart of horticulture,
In the freezer now you lie,
Symbol of morticulture.