Loyal dog continues to attend mass at church where owner's funeral was held"

[TroyGator]

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow...153655088.html

[Dreamliner]

Stories like this no longer amaze me. Knowing and loving dogs as I do, I've rather come to expect things like this.

[gatorman_07732]

They are loyal dogs particularly speaking

[OaktownGator]

Dogs are too good for us humans. We're lucky to have them.

[bogeyfred]

Our priest would bring his dog to mass at the small church we attended. He would bark at anyone that came in after mass had started !

[Juggernautz]

Originally Posted by OaktownGator

Dogs are too good for us humans. We're lucky to have them.

[peytiepie]

Originally Posted by OaktownGator

Dogs are too good for us humans. We're lucky to have them.

Agree 100%!

[oragator1]

I said it in another thread a while back, but adopted dogs from bad circumstances know, in a real way they know and appreciate what you did for them. Their loyalty is something we humans can't even fathom.

[jewood592]

I tell my wife all the time, we'd have 100 dogs if I had room for them. As it stands, we have 4

[Kirby]

Watch the movie "Haichi" with Richard Gere. It will bring a tear to your eyes. Very similar to the above and based on a true story.

[Dreamliner]

Our newest dog, our fourth, literally adopted us. He kept escaping the home where he was being neglected and camping out on our doorstep. We eventually met with his former owner and she agreed that we would provide a better home for the little guy. He's as happy as a clam and we literally cannot imagine never having had him.

[gatorman_07732]

Originally Posted by Dreamliner

Our newest dog, our fourth, literally adopted us. He kept escaping the home where he was being neglected and camping out on our doorstep. We eventually met with his former owner and she agreed that we would provide a better home for the little guy. He's as happy as a clam and we literally cannot imagine never having had him.

Pretty cool...I'm getting ready to move on with another after having put down my last a few months ago.

[Spurffelbow833]

My two little dachshund/Jack Russell mixes are littermates who are now 15 years old. They are nearly blind and deaf, but still quite content. One of them barks outdoors incessantly now that he can't hear, so I can't leave them outside for very long. Their housebreaking has pretty much come unraveled in the past few months. I know a lot of people draw the line there and put pets down when they start to lose control of their bodily functions, but I would no sooner have them put down then I would expect it to be done to an old person in a nursing home. They aren't suffering, and until they are, I will not act to end their lives. They're making me suffer a bit, but that's the bargain I signed up for when I adopted them as puppies. I don't have to please anyone but myself where they are concerned. I can replace the carpet when they're gone. I can't replace them.

They've kept me company many a day when there would have otherwise been nobody else there. I cannot imagine what it will be like coming home without them waiting for me, and I don't want to know.

[Dreamliner]

Originally Posted by Spurffelbow833

My two little dachshund/Jack Russell mixes are littermates who are now 15 years old. They are nearly blind and deaf, but still quite content. One of them barks outdoors incessantly now that he can't hear, so I can't leave them outside for very long. Their housebreaking has pretty much come unraveled in the past few months. I know a lot of people draw the line there and put pets down when they start to lose control of their bodily functions, but I would no sooner have them put down then I would expect it to be done to an old person in a nursing home. They aren't suffering, and until they are, I will not act to end their lives. They're making me suffer a bit, but that's the bargain I signed up for when I adopted them as puppies. I don't have to please anyone but myself where they are concerned. I can replace the carpet when they're gone. I can't replace them.

They've kept me company many a day when there would have otherwise been nobody else there. I cannot imagine what it will be like coming home without them waiting for me, and I don't want to know.

Amen. And I find my dogs bodily functions no more disagreeable than my son's bodily functions when he was tiny. That is to say that they are MY dogs just like my son was MY son.

In fact, just last night, my favorite dog, Dugger, threw up all over my Lazy Boy. I literally had to spoon up a large bowl of 'food matter' but, because of who's vomit it was, I found it no more disagreeable than I found cleaning up after my small son.

I don't even give a damn about the Lazy Boy, really. I may have it cleaned when I get around to it. The companionship Dugger provides is worth a thousand such protein spills.

[toon66]

Originally Posted by TroyGator

http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/sideshow...153655088.html

Think a cat would do this? Not a chance.

[Dreamliner]

Originally Posted by toon66

Think a cat would do this? Not a chance.

Cats are great, but if you died it would just go looking for someone else who knows how to open a can.

[gator1986]

I love dogs man... They literally are mans best friends

[toon66]

Originally Posted by Dreamliner

Cats are great, but if you died it would just go looking for someone else who knows how to open a can.

I've known some women like that.:-)