Guardian angels are at times manifested in dogs.
“Guardian angels are at times manifested in dogs.”
This story will be remembered and told long after Max is gone.
He has become a part of family lore.
Recall those old lines -—Never go faster than your Guardian Angel can fly ?
I used to be on the road and gone overnight occasionally. We had this Newfoundland rescue dog that was the most laid back gentle animal ever. I once saw a kitten play with his ear until it bled and he ignored it. My wife came home one night after dark and for some reason thought there was someone in the house. She brought Jack in with her. He immediately picked up on her suspicion and would not allow her into a room ahead of him. He went into each room bristling and snarling, all 135lbs of him. She told me that had she been an intruder she would have pissed herself and jumped out the window. After the house was secured and she had lavished him with praise and a treat he laid down and went to sleep.
There was a saying way back when, that sometimes guardian angels have fur and waggy tails. I believed it then (I’m 67) and I believe it now.
I will always remember a news story from several years ago where an abandoned infant, left in an alley, was kept warm and alive by a stray dog that found it and snuggled with it. First-responders said that had the dog not done that, the infant would have perished over the night from hypothermia. One of the EMTs said that the dog stood around for a few minutes after the EMTs arrived, but at a distance, as if making sure the baby would be okay, then it took off.