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NRaleighLiberal

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16. I am having a sad, contemplative day...
Mon Dec 11, 2017, 02:06 PM
Dec 2017

We've had this most wonderful dog, Mocha - (we've had four wonderful dogs in our 37 years of marriage - Mocha was our newest arrival, and is about to be the last to go). She is a sweet pure bred chocolate lab we were given when she was a puppy. She has been an exemplary being - a pure, fun, cheerful, kind spirit. She can't use her legs any more, she is approaching 14, all she can now do is lay on her bed - I carry her out to do what she has to do. It is time - I know it.

But the magical richness of life that living with our dogs for 37 years has taught my wife and I is that we may be able to talk the most, drive, earn living, etc - but dogs - probably all animals, in general - we have nothing on them in wisdom, decency, purpose.

A Potter's Field [View all] H2O Man Dec 2017 OP
Thank you Solly Mack Dec 2017 #1
Fair enough. H2O Man Dec 2017 #3
I wasn't disagreeing. I was letting you know I was thinking about what you wrote. Solly Mack Dec 2017 #4
Yes. H2O Man Dec 2017 #7
So, like, the whole of Dylan but only the Lennon-majority of the Beatles? :) Solly Mack Dec 2017 #9
And that's H2O Man Dec 2017 #13
lots of food for thought there. One other thing that has been on my mind recently... NRaleighLiberal Dec 2017 #2
Right. H2O Man Dec 2017 #5
I don't think there is a "perhaps" about it. I think humans v1.0 are fatally flawed NRaleighLiberal Dec 2017 #6
One of the H2O Man Dec 2017 #14
I am having a sad, contemplative day... NRaleighLiberal Dec 2017 #16
I bought my dog a wheelchair.....and a harness to. Is she on rymadyl? Glucosamine/chondrotin Kirk Lover Dec 2017 #17
Yes, we are through all of that. She is telling us it is time. NRaleighLiberal Dec 2017 #18
I'm glad you are listening to her. n/t Kirk Lover Dec 2017 #20
I find it far easier to start hating groups of people Mr.Bill Dec 2017 #8
Interesting. H2O Man Dec 2017 #15
Personally, I think this nails a lot of what is happening. Vilis Veritas Dec 2017 #10
Thank you. H2O Man Dec 2017 #21
There are some life-threatening fires in California right now. democrank Dec 2017 #11
Well said. H2O Man Dec 2017 #22
As you know coeur_de_lion Dec 2017 #12
Thank you. H2O Man Dec 2017 #23
Irish? I love him already coeur_de_lion Dec 2017 #27
United we stand, divided we fall? kentuck Dec 2017 #19
Exactly. H2O Man Dec 2017 #24
And the measuring stick for their belief in their superiority is money lunatica Dec 2017 #25
I agree fully. H2O Man Dec 2017 #26
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