There is nothing like the love and loyalty of a dog ~ nothing. Just watched a feature on ESPN how a dog in followed a Sweden Hiking team ~ a frail, injured dog for 100 miles in Ecuador. After losing my Boxer last year ~ the memory of how important this loyalty is had me in tears the whole time.
A nice story. Couldn't they have had a human bean narrate it though?
March 05, 2017, 03:18 PM
YooperSigs
A great dog story!
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March 05, 2017, 03:20 PM
Dbltap
Slight slide here. Grew up with dogs, love dogs always had dogs. Never had a cat, hated cats never wanted a cat. Had some severe allergies to cats. Scraggly, scrawny, dirty blond tabby stray walks out of the woods onto our back porch. I chase it away every morning for a week or so, keeps coming back. I confront and accuse wife and daughter of feeding said cat. I get smiles and giggles. "Oh Daddy can we keep him". I say maybe, depends on what you name him and it better be good. After 3-4 days with no influence, daughter says she wants to name him Trigger. What a beautiful, intelligent, engaging affectionate cat. Awesome hunter. Spends nights outside, comes in for food and love, has a wooded kitty playground as he pleases. He has a real sweet gig. And the bonus, not a single sniffle or sneeze. I'm at a loss, no allergic reaction. He is family now Kitty karma hit me hard.
March 05, 2017, 03:44 PM
katndog
Nice story and cute dog
March 05, 2017, 03:46 PM
synthplayer
Dbltap, I had heard of cats like the one you describe, but I had never met one. Every cat I ever met was selfish and uninterested. But, finally, my neighbor adopted a cat and he was amazing. We surmised that poor Charlie got the wrong information, and actually believed he was a dog. If I could have a cat like Charlie, I'd have one. But, he'd have to have the personality of a dog - loving and caring and appreciative.
Well, like the dog in the video.
I found what you said riveting.
March 05, 2017, 04:02 PM
Rey HRH
That's sweet. And the dog deserved his payback.
"It did not really matter what we expected from life, but rather what life expected from us. We needed to stop asking about the meaning of life, and instead to think of ourselves as those who were being questioned by life – daily and hourly. Our answer must consist not in talk and meditation, but in right action and in right conduct. Life ultimately means taking the responsibility to find the right answer to its problems and to fulfill the tasks which it constantly sets for each individual." Viktor Frankl, Man's Search for Meaning, 1946.
March 05, 2017, 04:15 PM
rusbro
What a great dog, with a fantastic temperament and sense of loyalty.
March 05, 2017, 05:07 PM
smschulz
The part where I lost it when after hiking 30 or 40 miles thru all kinds of terrain and they had to take the Kayak up(maybe down) the river and they were supposed to have leave him behind (rules or something like that). They said "good bye" and shoved off down the river. Then SPASH ~ King Arthur starts swimming next to them in the dark. (losing it now as I type ).
March 06, 2017, 07:05 AM
liner
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Originally posted by smschulz: The part where I lost it when after hiking 30 or 40 miles thru all kinds of terrain and they had to take the Kayak up(maybe down) the river and they were supposed to have leave him behind (rules or something like that). They said "good bye" and shoved off down the river. Then SPASH ~ King Arthur starts swimming next to them in the dark. (losing it now as I type ).
Me too, amazing story and what a dog!
March 06, 2017, 12:48 PM
Orive 8
GREAT story. Thank you for sharing it.
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March 06, 2017, 06:03 PM
justjoe
Loyalty is one of the greatest qualities in the world. And dogs have it in spades.
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