donaldb
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Some of you may remember my post back last spring about the loss of our best friend of 15 years, Taz our cocker spaniel. That was a difficult time for my wife and I as we have no children and Taz had become our child of 15 years. Enter now a new phase. This is both a good and sad story.
Here is a pic of my wife w/two puppies, story to follow below:
These two pups are mutts in the truest since of the word. They were brought home by our irresponsible next door neighbor which I affectionatly refer to as butthead. The worse redneck in all of Mississippi. Why he brought them to his house.........I have no idea. He would not take care of them, not feed them, not give them medical care, not give them any attention whatsoever. So naturally they wondered and in time made it down to our house. Of course wifey is going to love on them. I told her not to get attached as they were not our dogs. She swore she would not feed them (yea right!). The above pic was taken back around the first part of Oct. I left on my trip to Deals Gap and when I returned the puppies were still coming over and of course we both would pet them and give them attention..........and occasionally when wifey was away I admit, I slipped them a piece or 2 of bread as they were starving.
Last week after work I went home and started raking in the yard and over comes the little black puppy but no blonde pup. I figured he would be along shortly but he never showed. Wifey came home and inquired Where's the blonde? response....I have not seen it. Wifey worried about that puppy all night. The next morning she rode by butthead's house and saw the blonde pup laying under a junk pickup truck, she thought he was asleep so she went to work. That afternoon still no blonde pup, she went back over to butthead's and the puppy was still lying under the truck, no one was at home so she pulled down the driveway and the pup did not move. She got out and ck'd and the blonde pup of course was dead. I have no idea what killed him, oh man that was one long night at the donaldb house. She went over the next day with a blanket she had put on our carport for the puppies to sleep on and advised butthead his puppy was dead would he please do the decent thing wrap it in the blanket and bury it. Man was wifey pissed and rightfully so. Butthead advised her that he did not want the puppies, that his girlfriend had brought them over and left them and if she wanted the other one to please take it...........enter stage right.........Sam:
So, I was not yet ready for another dog and likely would not have picked Sam but I have learned sometimes pet's pick you rather than you picking them. The thought of being unwanted was just to much for my stomach to handle. We had talked about taking Sam to a no kill shelter, but he has had a such a rough start in life and I just could'nt live with the thought that he still was'nt wanted when I had no valid reason not to give him a home. So we are now the proud new parents of a certified paper tot'n pedigree "**** Eater", and a great little mutt he is. I just wish his playmate was still around........he would have had a home too.
Here is a pic of my wife w/two puppies, story to follow below:
These two pups are mutts in the truest since of the word. They were brought home by our irresponsible next door neighbor which I affectionatly refer to as butthead. The worse redneck in all of Mississippi. Why he brought them to his house.........I have no idea. He would not take care of them, not feed them, not give them medical care, not give them any attention whatsoever. So naturally they wondered and in time made it down to our house. Of course wifey is going to love on them. I told her not to get attached as they were not our dogs. She swore she would not feed them (yea right!). The above pic was taken back around the first part of Oct. I left on my trip to Deals Gap and when I returned the puppies were still coming over and of course we both would pet them and give them attention..........and occasionally when wifey was away I admit, I slipped them a piece or 2 of bread as they were starving.
Last week after work I went home and started raking in the yard and over comes the little black puppy but no blonde pup. I figured he would be along shortly but he never showed. Wifey came home and inquired Where's the blonde? response....I have not seen it. Wifey worried about that puppy all night. The next morning she rode by butthead's house and saw the blonde pup laying under a junk pickup truck, she thought he was asleep so she went to work. That afternoon still no blonde pup, she went back over to butthead's and the puppy was still lying under the truck, no one was at home so she pulled down the driveway and the pup did not move. She got out and ck'd and the blonde pup of course was dead. I have no idea what killed him, oh man that was one long night at the donaldb house. She went over the next day with a blanket she had put on our carport for the puppies to sleep on and advised butthead his puppy was dead would he please do the decent thing wrap it in the blanket and bury it. Man was wifey pissed and rightfully so. Butthead advised her that he did not want the puppies, that his girlfriend had brought them over and left them and if she wanted the other one to please take it...........enter stage right.........Sam:
So, I was not yet ready for another dog and likely would not have picked Sam but I have learned sometimes pet's pick you rather than you picking them. The thought of being unwanted was just to much for my stomach to handle. We had talked about taking Sam to a no kill shelter, but he has had a such a rough start in life and I just could'nt live with the thought that he still was'nt wanted when I had no valid reason not to give him a home. So we are now the proud new parents of a certified paper tot'n pedigree "**** Eater", and a great little mutt he is. I just wish his playmate was still around........he would have had a home too.
