My first pup was when I was 6, lived in the country with no kids close by. So me and my dog did everything outdoors together. I think it’s a shame they don’t live as long as we do. I’m 68 now and miss them all. I got 2, one a rescue blue healer cross and a little girl that’s a kelpie and border collie cross. As a kid me and the dog wrestled, hunted, and played. You get lost keep your dog close.
If the dog is a herd dog don’t scold the kids. The dog don’t let no body mess with the kid. My border collies own the herd, nobody messes with their herd. :)
My first pup was when I was 6, lived in the country with no kids close by. So me and my dog did everything outdoors together. I think it’s a shame they don’t live as long as we do. I’m 68 now and miss them all.
My story in a nutshell, except I’m 62.
I had a black lab when I was a kid. She was my sidekick. I took her out to a surfing beach after work as I normally did. That day I got caught in an outgoing tide taking me past the line of breakers.
I was out 400 yards and no one could see me waving. I kept being taken further out. On shore I watched as my dog stopped chasing Frisbees and came to the water’s edge directly to my front. She stared at me. I was too weak to raise an arm to wave to her. All at once she bounded into the waves and swam out to me. I still remember seeing her climb into breaking waves, slapping her paws in the air to make it through, then shaking her head coming down the back side and bobbing it forward and back as she chugged along.
When she got out to me she made a U-turn and I grabbed her tail. I was too weak to hold my head out of the water. I just raised my head to take a breath then went back down as she towed me in. After a few minutes she pulled me in to a sandbar. I had to sit and rest for some time before I could stand up and walk in. She saved my life.
Dogs are great.