Sad Image: A Mans Best Friend (Caution Image May Be Disturbing For Some)

[Nomad559]

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[BarenakedLady]

1. Gah

:-(

[fizzgig]

2. anyone who looks at a pic like this and still says animals don't have feelings

doesn't have any themselves. my heart is breaking just looking at that

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[Nomad559]

4. Agreed

Love Is not just a human emotion.

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[Ellen Forradalom]

3. snif

:cry: :cry:

[alphafemale]

5. Poor baby

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[Haole Girl]

6. Why did I look at this?

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[Blue Diadem]

7. Such love. This is the 3rd story recently about dogs not leaving their owners

http://www.wfsb.com/news/14502758/detail.html
Pit Bull Stands By Owner In Tanker Crash


http://www.wfsb.com/family/14464527/detail.html
Dogs Praised For Their Devotion To Dying Master

[marzipanni]

8. That is so sad! May I offer a YouTube video about a dog to help you feel better?

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QZR17rlXNWw

[lost-in-nj]

9. the poor pup

how heartbreaking.......

lost

[Hand]

10. ...

Gentlemen of the jury, the best friend a man has in this world may turn against him and become his enemy. His son and daughter that he has reared with loving care may become ungrateful. Those who are nearest and dearest to us, those whom we trust with our happiness and our good name, may become traitors to their faith. The money that a man has he may lose. It flies away from him when he may need it most. Man's reputation may be sacrificed in a moment of ill considered action. The people who are prone to fall on their knees and do us honor when success is with us may be the first to throw the stone of malice when failure settles its cloud upon our head.

The one absolutely unselfish friend that man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his DOG. A man's dog stands by him in prosperity and in poverty, in health and in sickness. He will sleep on the cold ground,where the wintry winds blow and the snow drives fiercely, if only he may be near his master's side. He will kiss the hand that has no food to offer, he will lick the wounds and sores that come in encounter with the roughness of the world. He guards the sleep of his pauper master as if he were a prince. When all other friends desert, he remains. When riches take wing and reputation falls to pieces, he is as constant in his love as the sun in its journey through the heavens. If fortune drives the master forth an outcast into the cold, friendless and homeless, the faithful dog asks no higher privilege than that of accompanying him to guard him against danger, and to fight against his enemies. When the last scene of all comes, and death takes his master in its embrace and his body is laid away in the cold ground, no matter if all other friends pursue their way, there by his graveside will the noble dog be found, his head between his paws and his eyes sad, but open in alert watchfulness, faithful and true even to death.

-Senator George Vest, 1870.

[ironflange]

11. Shep's Long Vigil

There won't be a dry eye in the house.

One August day in 1936 an eastbound Great Northern passenger train puffed into the Fort Benton, Mont., station. Baggage men busied themselves by the baggage car, loading a casket containing the body of a sheepherder being sent east for burial.

Off to one side of the group of busy men, a big, gaunt shepherd dog whined and watched with puzzled eyes. He watched as the engine blew its steam and the train moved slowly out of the station. Then he turned and dispiritedly trotted away.

http://www.trivia-library.com/b/story-of-shepherd-dog-shep-long-vigil-part-1.htm

The link to continue is near the bottom, on the right, rather small and easy to miss.

edit: Turns out Shep has his own home page: http://www.fortbenton.com/shep/index.htm. I think I'd like to visit his memorial; I'm planning to take a trip to Great Falls soon.

[marzipanni]

12. I wish Shep had been allowed to know that his friend had died...

The poor dog thought that box would come back to Fort Benton. His sheepherder would push up the lid, sit up, and be so glad to see his loyal dog.

[Nomad559]

13. There won't be a dry eye in the house

The Shep story had me In tears.

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