If you don't cry at this story...

Took me two tries to finish the story...


Dog roams to visit owner's grave

Marci Reed kisses her late son Joshua's dog Zelda during a visit to his gravestone near Bremen, Ind. Zelda frequently runs to the cemetery to lie on Joshua's grave after Joshua was killed in a four-wheeler accident last year. Zelda and her owner, Joshua Reed, 15, were inseparable. Now, she goes and lies on his grave.

http://www.freep.com/article/20101128/FEATURES10/101128013/1319/&template=fullarticle

 

God, that story's so powerful.

 

dusty here

 

Compounded by the fact I was gone all day... family friend let our dogs out -- Jack is attached to me, Dottie to Ms. Slappy.
Friend lets Jack out and he roams around the yard. It's a nice sunny day so he heads to the corner of the lot and looks down the street and sits down. looks up at the friend, then back down the street, then back to her.
"It's OK," she told Jack, "He's coming home soon to see you."
When I get home, I sit at the computer to do some work and see this story.

 

I just hugged Rocky (my German Shepherd).

Wow...

 

Tough one to read.

When I was a teenager, my black lab got cancer and we were going to have to put him down. My dad delayed making the appointment until it was obvious Pepper was in pain. He finally made it and we both slept restlessly, knowing that we were going to have to take our dog to die in the morning.

When we woke up, he had died in the night. We're both convinced that he knew how horrible it was going to be for us to put him down and he gave up his fight with the cancer in the middle of the night to spare us the pain.

 

Wow. Thanks for posting that, Slappy. My parents had to put our last dog to sleep. I was away at college. It was 21 years ago, but I still miss her.

 

My parents had to put down the dog I've had since I was nine years old this past summer. I was bawling in the bathroom most of the night at work.

 

This is how the story is going to end ...

http://www.prairieghosts.com/h_lawn.html

Stiffy Green is a legend in Terre Haute. He's had bands named after him.

 

Reminds me of Hachiko.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hachik%C5%8D

Can't beat a dog for loyalty and devotion.

 

I applaud the reporter for writing that story. Wonder how that came about?

At a lot of places, if someone called to try to report that story to the paper, they'd get laughed at.

As an aside, I think ATVs must be the most dangerous inventions ever.

 

the problem with that, Ace, is that it was operator error here, not a flawed design, that caused the death... though I do agree they are inheritently dangerous