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Rhiannon12866

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2. I'm very aware of the Manneken Pis and his story. My little dog was named after him.
Mon Jun 14, 2021, 03:38 AM
Jun 2021

I had 2 dogs, cocker spaniels, and when I lost the elder one (at age 18 or 19), I thought his "sister" missed him (as I did ), so I called about an 8-year-old cocker up for adoption, but was told that the dog had already been placed. But the dedicated woman in rescue that I spoke to told me about another little dog that was in a bad situation. His owner had died and he'd been taken by a man and his stepson which was a bad fit since he'd belonged to an elderly woman and did not like men.

So I called the guy who was anxious to unload the dog, and my cocker and I arranged to meet him the very next day. Turns out he was a 9-year-old Brussels Griffon - and the guy hadn't known his name - it was Meneken. And he was a Brussels Griffon... His owner must have known about the statue.

And it couldn't have worked out better, he hit it off with my other dog (whose original owner had also died, I adopted her at age 8) and he went everywhere with me, was obviously used to being taken. That was in 2001 and when I joined DU back in 2003, another DUer showed me how to post a pic - so this was the first photo I ever posted on DU.

Meneken and Sheena


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