German Shepherd Carries Cat Toy Around The House For The New Kitten To Play With

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[ret5hd]

1. Dang...my spouse watched this and...

is heading to the local rescue as we speak.

I think my days here are numbered.

[woodsprite]

2. Wish mine would do that!

I so want another pup or kitten in the house. I miss Noelle terribly. I understand why that can't happen right now since healthwise, I don't know which way I'm going, and next year (good lord willing and the creek don't rise), I have a 3 wk vacation planned - 2 wks with the in-laws at the beach and 1 wk at Disney with our 3 20somethings.

[StarryNite]

3. German Shepherd Dogs...my favorite breed.

But most of my dogs have been rescue mutts. Right now I'm dogless. I just don't think I can go through losing another one.

[TomSlick]

4. The fact that pets have a shorter life span than humans is the cost we pay for their love.

There is some rescue in your area that needs a home. Both of you will have better lives for being loved.

[StarryNite]

6. Yes, it is a hard price to pay.

My husband would go get a dog right now if I said I was ready. I know it would be a good thing to do but I'm still crying over my last rescue and it's been just over a year. Saying goodbye is the hardest thing.

[TomSlick]

7. All too true. Over the years, I have grieved for many dogs.

There was Pebbles who was adopted from a shelter when I was stationed in Kentucky. I went in looking for a small short-hair and left with a large long-haired mutt when the shelter worker told me, through her tears, that it was her "last day" in the shelter. When our son was born, Pebbles took on the role of Nana.

There was Fritz, the escape artist, who the rest of the family couldn't handle but settled in happily in our home. Then Heidi, that my wife and then teen aged son adopted as a puppy from the Walmart parking lot and who spent her last years on evening walks in a doggie wheelchair. Then came Beau, the Weimaraner who was too big and lively for a young man in our church. I dug each of their graves while crying. Each time, I assured myself that my tears were the cost of such unmerited love while the dogs lived.

Now we have Ciorra, a beagle, from a local rescue organization and Finian, a small wire-haired terrier of some sort, who followed my wife home from campus.

When I see a picture of Pebbles and our then infant son, or of Beau (who had no idea of his size) sitting in my lap, I can only smile, just as I smile at the more recent picture of Finian with our grandson.

The best remedy for tears over a lost dog is to have them licked away by another dog. Be brave. Some furry bundle of love needs you.

[StarryNite]

8. Each one has his or her own personality.

And we love them for who they are/were. We've had five dogs that we got in various ways. We lived in a different home when the first two died. The last three are buried in our backyard along with our cat and our daughter's three dogs and cat. Our last dog, Abbey, found us when we were camping in the forest. She must have been dumped by her previous owners. No tags, collar, or chip. Some of the other campers in the area said they had seen her the day before up by the highway. She was about a year old. She had a lot of emotional baggage. We had her for 12 years and she still was affected all those years by however she had been treated by her first people. Even with all her quirks I loved her dearly.

I miss them all. I love dogs, but I feel like I only want my dogs back which of course is not possible. That being said, if a dog in need were to come into our lives in a similar way like the way Abbey did, I wouldn't be able to turn my back on it. But I'm not in the right emotional place to go looking.

When people tell me that my dogs were so lucky to have had me, I always respond with, no, I was the lucky one to have had them. You're right though, nothing heals and wipes away the tears the way another pupper would.

[TomSlick]

11. You know best where you are.

Our nephew who volunteered with a local rescue showed up one day with Ciorra. Little Finian found us and insisted that we were now his people.

Someone will come along needing your love.

[pansypoo53219]

9. they live shorter so we can have more. i need cat.

[littlemissmartypants]

5. ❤

[Martin Eden]

10. Such a good girl!!!

And a very smart girl.

[live love laugh]

12. 💕💕💕💕

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13. I love German Shepherds.

We had 5 over the years.