We were really lucky today.
*sigh*
I bet that one of the first souls that come up to see you when you go to heaven will be that shepherd. With a big ‘ole sloppy smile.
Heh.
I need to sign off for the night.
See you in the FReepdom.
I don't know about dogs in Heaven, but if so there's another I'd love to see right alongside him -- a shepherd-coyote mix who always looked like a shepherd pup, but was one of the brightest dogs I've known. We invested heavily in his rehabilitation from being a badly-abused pup, and were we ever rewarded. He was much more strongly attached to his human family than any other dog we've had.
Interestingly, I've run into a couple of other (former?) coyote-shepherd mix owners on FR, and their experiences of "bright" and "attached" are identical to mine.