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

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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.