Esther

Hello everyone. This is not basset related but is, indeed, DOG related and since that's why we're all here... here goes:

So about six months ago a pit bull named, "Kapone," was stolen from a family's yard. He was last seen being picked up by an animal control officer who they think had something to do with it. Some think they are being used as mini puppy mill dogs--steal dog, make pups, sell for $$. Disgusting people indeed, especially STEALING from a family to do your "business." (side note the control officer was subsequently arrested for animal cruelty and fired from her position. YAY!!!)
The great news is that Kapone was FOUND yesterday and is being reunited with his family after six months of despair. They still don't know if the home where he was found knew they were harboring a stolen dog or not. Details continue to trickle. All I know is that there was a reward offered for $8,000 and the good samaritan that tipped off the police REFUSED to accept it!!!

Ok. Now... I've given this backstory to share the following. One place online where the news of Kapone's discovery yesterday was being discussed, there was the predictable jerk saying things like, "It coulda been my sister missing and wouldn't have offered that much money," and of course the folks that will say, "It's JUST a DOG, people!" Well that burns my humans' rear-ends when people say JUST A DOG.

A friend of ours, whose pup had just been run over and killed two weeks ago, shared these words with everyone and I wanted to share with all of you:

From time to time, people tell me, “lighten up, it’s just a dog”, or, “that’s a lot of money for just a dog”. They don’t understand the distance traveled, the time spent, or the costs involved for “just a dog”. Some of my proudest moments have come about with “just a dog”. Many hours have passed and my only company was “just a dog”, but I did not o...nce feel slighted. Some of my saddest moments have been brought about by “just a dog” and in those days of darkness, the gentle touch of “just a dog” gave me comfort and reason to overcome the day. If you, too, think it’s “just a dog”, then you will probably understand phases like “just a friend”, “just a sunrise”, or “just a promise”. “Just a dog” brings into my life the very essence of friendship, trust, and pure unbridled joy. “Just a dog” brings out the compassion and patience that makes me a better person. Because of “just a dog” I will spend time searching for wet and slimy tennis balls, take long walks and meet people who's lives are also shared with "just a dog". For me and folks like me, it’s not “just a dog” but an embodiment of all the hopes and dreams of the future, the fond memories of the past, and the pure joy of the moment. “Just a dog” brings out what’s good in me and diverts my thoughts away from myself and the worries of the day. I hope that someday they can understand that it’s not “just a dog” but the thing that gives me humanity and keeps me from being “just a human.” So the next time you hear the phrase “just a dog”, just smile, because they “just don’t understand".

Hug your furbabies everyone. They're not JUST DOGS! They are family and Christmastime is about family. Merry Christmas everyone.
~E

dreamons

We agree Esther.

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Barney'spal

Couldn't have expressed it better!

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paisleysmom

Well said Esther!!!

loopylou

Here, here! Some of the best moments in my life have been with or because of "just a dog".

miss.abbey.road

I feel ya!! I love abbey with all my heart she is like one of my kids she got hit by a car this last summer. (Just some scratches and bruises) well my mother in law told me its just a dog and that I should take her out in the woods and put a bullet I her and put her out of her pain. Years ago my husband was little and got a puppy as a gift and it pittled on her floor a few times and she took it in a pillow sack and hrew it over a bridge I hate this women is evil. She always says just a dog like she is just a pile of nothing. Err she invited her self to christmas morning and demanded I put "that dog" out side while she is here

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Esther

SHE would be the one put outside at our house.
If there's no room on the couch due due two yards of bassets laying across, you'd best find another place to sit... or learn to enjoy standing...

henry'smum

If you dnt like my dog your not welcome in my home. If i think your kids would annoy my dog, your not welcome in my home. I tell everyone say hat you like about my husband but talk about my dog and there will be trouble

MollyMcFrecklesMom

I like dogs better than people. Dogs are honest and love you know matter what. I'd go to the end of the earth for my dogs. Miss abbey road (I loooove your name), I have a neighbor who told me to "put her out of her misery" when my cockapoo Zoey was diagnosed with hip displaysia. I politely told her to **** off.

The best partof my day is the time I am hanging with Molly and Winston. I miss them when I am not home.

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The adventures of a Basset Hound living with Addison's Disease and a baby brother named Winston

Swimming-duck

That gave me goosebumps!