[Shadowstrike]

I have loved, and do love all my dogs, cats, and yes...even horses. They were my childhood playmates, I confided secrets to them like no other on Earth. They were never too tired, or in a bad mood. ALWAYS happy to spend even the briefest moment with me. I have grieved, and still do over them, in some cases more than 'human' family members. I would kill without regret anyone who even attempted to harm them. I would run into a burning building to save them. Yes, just as they would die to protect me, I would give my life to protect them. They are and where all given to me by the same God that created me. Not love them? Not protect them? That would be insulting to the very God that made them.

[Natural Born 54]

I jumped into a raging (swollen from snow melt) river in the spring when our Bibi slipped and fell down the bank. I was able to grab her collar and hook her head under my arm right away and grasp some long grass on the bank a little ways down. Getting out through the sucking mud that kept breaking away in the rushing water was actually the hardest part. I didn’t think twice about it, didn’t think at all, just went for her.