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To: epicure who wrote (75221)	2/26/2000 3:31:00 PM
From: jbe	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

Oh, X, what a sad tale! And you did not tell us how it ends...I am not sure I even want to know. Is she still alive? Does she still cry? Has anyone ever cleaned up her yard?

To: epicure who wrote (75221)	2/26/2000 6:37:00 PM
From: nihil	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 108807

My life has been changed since I started adopting dogs. My GSP Maka has cysts and ulcers all over her that take a lot of care. Her medical insurance costs $300 a year and doesn't cover everything. She needs an enormous amount of minor surgery that is painful. She bears with it. As I get older and sicker every day I take a lesson from her fortitude. Her affection for me, although I am forced to hurt her when I treat her is amazing. She has a pointer nervous disease which makes her shiver uncontrollably when approached by human beings. Yet she comes up to me when I am sitting with the scalpels and medicines and in effect asks me to torture her. She will sit with her head in my lap on the floor while I cut on her, shivering and crying (not whining) until I am done. I hate to anthropomorphize her, but I truly think that she understands that I am helping her and has learned that relief follows the pain. If not, she has learned that I want her to submit herself to treatment, and she is willing to please me. Her greatest joy is to walk down to the mailbox to get the news paper in the AM. The dogs all compete to see who can go. The other two go leashed. Maka can be trusted to heel and come and goes without a leash. Her previous master abandoned her, I suspect because he hadn't the time to take care of her or was unwilling to pay large prospective medical bills. Had I passed her by, I would have missed knowing someone whose life was precious, both to her and me. I know the good Samaritan got much more satisfaction from rescuing the man who fell among thieves than the victim himself enjoyed. But Maka's gratitude every day is unbounded. Every day when I come home from work, she literally dances in greeting me. No one else seems to give that much of a damn.

To: epicure who wrote (75221)	2/26/2000 7:58:00 PM
From: Ish	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 108807

We have two dogs, Kate, a tall, lean mixed breed who we got from the Humane Society a week before they offed her as not adoptable, and Annie the beagle who was left when neighbors abandoned her. 4 cats that that were left by their mothers in a neighbor's barn. Like a zoo here. Dogs/wolves. The idea I have read that wolves hung with early humans because they ate the scraps. Easy pickings. Now another thing to cogitate on is there are wild dogs in many areas. A distinct species. Not to mention coyotes, jackels and foxes. And breeding for instincts. Whoo boy, the modern dog, pet. I don't believe it's just from wolves. Coyotes will breed with certain dogs. A grand DNA mix. When the Labrador Retriever got real popular there were many back yard breeders selling labs. Now 1/3 of the puppies won't retrieve. Retrievers who won't retrieve. When the cocker got real popular in the 60s, that sweet breed became the #1 breed in dog bites.