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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"Doubtless the good Lord could have made a better game bird than bobwhite, and better country to hunt him in...but equally doubtless, he never did." -- Guy de la Valdene (from A Handful of Feathers )
"'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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