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HOW COULD YOU?
Max's Corner ^ | 2001 | Jim Willis

Posted on 06/24/2003 6:05:16 PM PDT by SAMWolf

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A Note from the Author:

If "How Could You?" brought tears to your eyes as you read it, as it did to mine as I wrote it, it is because it is the composite story of the millions of formerly "owned" pets who die each year in American and Canadian animal shelters. Please use this to help educate, on your websites, in newsletters, on animal shelter and vet office bulletin boards. Tell the public that the decision to add a pet to the family is an important one for life, that animals deserve our love and sensible care, that finding another appropriate home for your animal is your responsibility and any local humane society or animal welfare league can offer you good advice, and that all life is precious. Please do your part to stop the killing, and encourage all spay & neuter campaigns in order to prevent unwanted animals.

Please pass this on to everyone, not to hurt them or make them sad, but it could save maybe, even one, unwanted pet. Remember...They love UNCONDITIONALLY.

1 posted on 06/24/2003 6:05:17 PM PDT by SAMWolf
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To: AntiJen; snippy_about_it; Victoria Delsoul; SassyMom; bentfeather; MistyCA; GatorGirl; radu; ...
A tearjerker I found while searching for something else.
2 posted on 06/24/2003 6:06:38 PM PDT by SAMWolf (COBOL programmers are down in the dumps.)
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To: SAMWolf
Tear jerker bump.

There is never a good day to read something like this is there?
3 posted on 06/24/2003 6:10:59 PM PDT by snippy_about_it (Pray for our Troops)
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To: SAMWolf
Oh gosh, Sam. You just made me cry.
4 posted on 06/24/2003 6:21:42 PM PDT by Victoria Delsoul
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To: snippy_about_it
Nope, but it does make you think doesn't it.
5 posted on 06/24/2003 6:22:56 PM PDT by SAMWolf (COBOL programmers are down in the dumps.)
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To: Victoria Delsoul
I warned you it was a tearjerker. :-(
6 posted on 06/24/2003 6:23:34 PM PDT by SAMWolf (COBOL programmers are down in the dumps.)
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To: SAMWolf
Ok.. pass the kleenex over this way. Thanks for the ping.
7 posted on 06/24/2003 6:40:33 PM PDT by Johnny Gage (We will not tire, We will not falter, We will not fail. - George W. Bush)
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To: SAMWolf; All
Tears here, strongly. And what timing you have! Tomorrow, myself and Mrs. Cut will be rescuing a dog. Here's the sorry tale:

My buddy from work, Chris, saw the dog PUSHED OUT OF A MOVING CAR, and rescued it. It's okay, seems to be (mostly) beagle and young. It has one "lazy eye" which can't seem to fix on anything. Other than that, it's apparently friendly and well-behaved, and housebroken to boot.

We'll be picking it up, as I say, tomorrow night, unless Mrs. Cut goes into labor, in which case Chris'l hold the dog for a few days.

I haven't had a dog for over ten years now, and have missed them greatly. Plus, it makes me sleep well at night knowing that there is a dog in the house...know what I mean?

I feel even better knowing that while I'm overseas, Mrs. Cut and Mini-Cut will have a dog here.

Thanks for this, SAM. you've made me more certain than ever that I'm doing the right thing to get the dog. I just wish it was ME who saw it tossed into the street. People who would do that are FUN to beat to a pulp.

8 posted on 06/24/2003 6:48:37 PM PDT by Long Cut (Any time now...)
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You're Welcome LC. You can never go wrong taking in a dog, Nothing is more loyal.

Never had one as a kid but I've made up for it in adult life.
9 posted on 06/24/2003 6:54:22 PM PDT by SAMWolf (COBOL programmers are down in the dumps.)
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To: Johnny Gage

I used up a lot of them already

10 posted on 06/24/2003 6:55:45 PM PDT by SAMWolf (COBOL programmers are down in the dumps.)
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To: SAMWolf
This is really sad. I will distribute it though.
11 posted on 06/24/2003 7:01:25 PM PDT by FITZ
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To: FITZ
Thanks.
12 posted on 06/24/2003 7:15:28 PM PDT by SAMWolf (COBOL programmers are down in the dumps.)
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To: SAMWolf
Oh man. Tough reading, especially for anyone that's ever had a dog.

Dogs really are man's best friend.

13 posted on 06/24/2003 7:24:36 PM PDT by Dan from Michigan ("Say Hey! Hey! Damn Yankee!")
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To: Dan from Michigan
Dogs really are man's best friend.

Yeah, you just don't get the same from a cat.
14 posted on 06/24/2003 7:27:59 PM PDT by SAMWolf (COBOL programmers are down in the dumps.)
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To: SAMWolf
Yes, you warned it was a tear jerker. Dogs don't like me much except once. An ugly mutt, half-starved with a huge belly, showed up at my shop and moved in. She was well-behaved around the kids (they were very young then) so I let her stay and gave her some food and water. The next day she had 6 pups, but she was so weak from being on her own, she died a short time later. I bottle fed the pups and found them all homes. How could someone dump such a sweet dog? I guess it's one of those mysteries about the dark side of human nature.
15 posted on 06/24/2003 7:37:50 PM PDT by bluesagewoman
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To: SAMWolf
Oh......tears from a dog mom,

My dog and I are a-pack-of-2

16 posted on 06/24/2003 7:39:05 PM PDT by apackof2 (Listen much, talk little, learn greatly)
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To: SAMWolf
At first, whenever anyone passed my pen, I rushed to the front, hoping it was you that you had changed your mind -- that this was all a bad dream... or I hoped it would at least be someone who cared, anyone who might save me.

Dammit that stinks! I just lost these two this spring to old age.... 16 and 17 years old respectively.

I know there is someone at the shelter that would love to take their place.


17 posted on 06/24/2003 7:46:12 PM PDT by HairOfTheDog (Not all those who wander are lost)
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To: bluesagewoman
Yeah I've know people who think owning a dog means leaving them chained up to a tree all their life and others who think opening the door and letting them run loose is taking care of them.

Some people don't deserve a dog.
18 posted on 06/24/2003 7:52:43 PM PDT by SAMWolf (COBOL programmers are down in the dumps.)
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To: HairOfTheDog
I've got 14 year old who's starting to feel her age. Not looking forward to the day I know is coming.
19 posted on 06/24/2003 7:53:57 PM PDT by SAMWolf (COBOL programmers are down in the dumps.)
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To: HairOfTheDog
someone at the shelter that would love to take their place.

Yes there is......I got my Maddie at our local shelter and I adore her

20 posted on 06/24/2003 7:54:24 PM PDT by apackof2 (Listen much, talk little, learn greatly)
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