03-04-2011, 07:28 AM
I know the bond that can be developed with a dog ... there is no living thing more loyal, more protective, more "there for you" than a dog!
I grew up with a Cocker Spaniel and then German Shephards ... three of them, one after another. The Cocker saved me from drowning as a toddler. One of the Shephards came to the rescue of my Clergyman father from a panhandler who physically pulled him out the front door of the house one hot summer night, and the last one repelled and held down an attacker until the Police arrived when my mother had him out in the yard (that had a 5-ft. high decorative wrought iron fence around it) for his "evening constitutional" at 11 PM one night in downtown Scranton, PA.
Dogs are definitely special animals! I wish I could have one right one now to keep me company, but my lease won't allow it, unfortunately.
If you haven't yet read it, pick up a copy of Rescuing Sprite, a book about rescuing a "shelter dog" from being "destroyed" and nursing it back to health ... a truely heart-warming "tale of tails" it will bring a tear to the eyes of the most macho dog lover among us!
I grew up with a Cocker Spaniel and then German Shephards ... three of them, one after another. The Cocker saved me from drowning as a toddler. One of the Shephards came to the rescue of my Clergyman father from a panhandler who physically pulled him out the front door of the house one hot summer night, and the last one repelled and held down an attacker until the Police arrived when my mother had him out in the yard (that had a 5-ft. high decorative wrought iron fence around it) for his "evening constitutional" at 11 PM one night in downtown Scranton, PA.
Dogs are definitely special animals! I wish I could have one right one now to keep me company, but my lease won't allow it, unfortunately.
If you haven't yet read it, pick up a copy of Rescuing Sprite, a book about rescuing a "shelter dog" from being "destroyed" and nursing it back to health ... a truely heart-warming "tale of tails" it will bring a tear to the eyes of the most macho dog lover among us!
biL
Lehigh Susquehanna & WesternÂ
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ~~Abraham Lincoln
Lehigh Susquehanna & WesternÂ
"America will never be destroyed from the outside. If we falter and lose our freedoms, it will be because we destroyed ourselves." ~~Abraham Lincoln