I love this. The big dog reminds me of a Staghound/Wolfhound cross my uncle had when I was a kid. His name was Dagwood Bumstead. When he was a couple of years old he fell of the back of the ute (pick-up) and got hit by five cars and nearly died. He had a broken jaw and a ruptured testicle among other things. The vet said we should take him home to the farm to die. My granny and I hand fed him and nursed him back to health and he was incredibly loyal to us to the day he died - 15 years later! I slept in a tent in the back yard once when I was 18 or 19 (he would have been 14 or so) and he came and slept on top of me, on the outside of the tent, to protect me. When I woke up in the morning I said "It's OK Dag, I'm awake now" and he got up and went back to his bed. Awesome dog.
Via
Great story Miss Lyd!!
ReplyDeleteI love dog stories but they invariably make me sad, even when there's a happy ending. i'm crazy that way.
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