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Pastimes : Let's Talk About Our Feelings!!! -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: nihil who wrote (75219)	2/26/2000 10:43:00 AM
From: epicure	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 108807

that's a wonderful post Nihil. We have a beautiful dog living behind us. As you know I'm not much for animals- because I'm a bad house keeper and they just add too much to my already overburdened life- but when our fence fell down a few years ago Bailey, the doberman behind us, began to play in our yard. She scared me the first time I saw her. You know the reputation Dobermans have. Her owner is gone all the time, and we would hear her crying all the time. Her yard is only dirt and it was never cleaned. So I didn't think she would be in a wonderful mood. But she was the sweetest most wonderful creature. She is old but was still very anxious to play games. We fell in love with her, because not only was she beautiful and kind but she was extremely well behaved. We had her in the house and put a towel down and told her to stay- and she would stay on the towel. Alas she was incontinent- and we had new carpeting so we decided not to adopt her. I feel terrible about that- but I couldn't commit to taking on a disabled dog with 3 small children already on my hands. We were afraid she would be lonely when we took trips- because we wouldn't have wanted her in the car. She had had an illness that affected the nerves that controlled her urinary sphincter- so it wasn't an issue of training. And she seemed to feel terrible when she would wet her towel- not just because she was being put out. I would swear she felt something like humiliation. I still feel very badly about it. I wish I could have given her the kind of home she deserves.