At the risk of being maudlin, I've always thought of my dogs as little people in dog suits. They have the best qualities of any humans I've ever met, and have very few of those "lower levels of human nature" that can make some people intolerable. The problem: they just don't live long enough. 'Nuf said. I mourn for this loss as I do when I read of anyone's loss of a close friend.
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“Every day I wonder how many things I am dead wrong about.”
― Jim Harrison
"'I promise you,' he said, 'on my word of honor, I won't die on the opening of the bird season.'" -- Robert Ruark (from The Old Man and the Boy)
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