February 2, 2011, was a very sad day in the Bak family. We had to make the very difficult decision to put Sunny to sleep. Over the prior 4 or 5 weeks, she had gotten really sick with what we found out was cancer. She basically had stopped eating and had lost almost half her weight. She was so sick that she no longer wanted to be around us, spending most of her days alone in her crate. Sunny had been Nik's and my pet since September 10, 2001 (one day before the 9/11 tragedy.) Sunny was a part of our life together almost from the beginning. Nikki found Sunny roaming the campus at Mandarin High School, her employer at the time, and her desperate plea to bring her home to our house for a day or 2, just until we found the owner, turned into almost 10  years. She became a member of our family and she will forever be missed. But having seen the pain she was in, we know we made the right decision, as hard as it was. Here are 2 pictures of Sunny. The first is a few days after we got her. The second is one of our last pictures of Sunny, taken around Christmas 2010.