That is a lovely story, and I completly understand the "outlasting the sig other " thing. I had a beautiful German Shepard that was a rescue from a animal shelter when I was about 16-17 years old, She was supposed to be a "family" dog for the family I as living in at the time,( I was on my own so to say from the time I was 14, going to stay wherever I could, and ended up staying with a friends' family for about a year or almost till I was about 17. Anyway, this do must have been trraumatized or mistreated in some way and was very scared. We lived in a two story house and all night long that dog went up and down the stairs whimpering and running back and forth to my bedroom, this happend for a good hour or so till I couldn't stand to see the poor dog so upset anymore, The dog was not a puppy but still fairly young, not more than three If my memory serves me correctly.
I kept calling her back and she kept going down those stairs and everyone else just kept sleeping, Finally I couldn't stand it anymore and grabbed my pillow and a couple of blankets and laid down on the hardwood floors and called her. She came to me and curled up next to me and slept with me on the floor all night long. After that bit of trust I gave her, she declared me as her "owner'; and even though she was a "family" dog, I am the one she clung to, She was allso very protective of me and being a purebred shepard, had great protection instincts and was not a small dog.
At the time I was dating a real "jerk" looking back after all these years, my first real boyfriend and I was not as good a judge of character as she was. For some reason she never liked Him and for good reason I soon found out. I got a summer job with the local YMCA as a youth camp counsler for a group- of 6-8 10-12 year old girls and it meant leaving home for about three weeks or so while working at camp. I was so excited to come home and see my dog, but when I got home, I had terrible news.
It seems somehow, that beautiful German Shepard Dog got off her chain in the front yard and was just "gone" The one who seemed to know all about it was my soon to be " ex -boyfriend who my dog never liked .( for good reason...
) She didn't like him and he didn't like her and was jealous. NOw that she was "gone and out of my life", he thought I would have more time for him........WRONG. It was obvious to me what had happend to my dog, he let her go and only God knows what happened to her..Animals are such a good judge of people, I only wish I would have known sooner and I would have never had gone to camp leaving her behind in a family that could not have known what was going to happen to her. I love all animals, cats as well as dogs, and I have had rabbits, rats and turtles as well and of course fish, including a gold fish born in 1997 that is still doing well, I would take any of them anyday over a human in most all circumstances. Animals are pure soul and do not turn on you the way humans can do. I really admire people who will give creatues a chance that haeve not had the chance the first time around. I am glad your dog is doing so well now IMR, he realy is a sweetie, you can tell just by looking at him.
RWM
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