Gosh, Phil, I wish I could offer you some words to lessen your loss, but all of us who give our hearts to a dog know the pain of losing them. It is clear from what I know from your many posts: Missy had as good a life with you as a bird dog could ever hope for. There is no love like that of a dog. You and she were both blessed with your years together.
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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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