Tributes....

Hello!

I stumbled on this contribution online today while reading an inspiring story of two canine buddies who were rescued after seven days lost. The canine friends escaped from home during a human party, when someone inadvertently let them out. The golden retriever wasn't a wanderer, but her friend, a Basset Hound is all nose and went wandering.

Apparently the Basset wandered right off into a cistern, and with her short stocky frame was unable to get back out. Her retriever friend stayed right with her. When the man who owned the land came home, the Retriever repeatedly attempted to lure him with her down a track in the woods to the site where the cistern was. Finally, after several days, the man called authorities who knew of the missing animals, and followed the Retriever back to her buddy today!

Both dogs are fine and enjoyed a huge supper of ground meat, then after an proper digestion time played a rousing game of ball! The owner has ordered a canine GPS unit for both and will apply it to them as soon as the mail delivers it!

Goes to show that love and devotion in canines extends to one another as well as their human friends. It's great to get to report a good story once in a while, isn't it? This one is courtesy Yahoo News.

Have a great weekend, make sure your gates and doors are up to snuff so you don't have a harrowing time like the owner above did, take an Autumn walk with your pup(s) and enjoy the fall air! Bill and I will be celebrating our 28th wedding anniversary this saturday! Time really DOES fly by when you marry the love of your life!!!

Later!

LV, JT & FX

George Graham Vest (1830-1904) served as U.S. Senator from Missouri from 1879 to 1903 and became one of the leading orators and debaters of his time. This delightful speech is from an earlier period in his life when he practiced law in a small Missouri town. It was given in court while representing a man who sued another for the killing of his dog. During the trial, Vest ignored the testimony, and when his turn came to present a summation to the jury, he made the following speech and won the case: Gentlemen of the Jury: The best friend a man has in the world may turn against him and become his enemy. His son or daughter that he has reared with loving care may prove ungrateful. Those who are nearest and dearest to us, those whom we trust with our happiness and our good name may become traitors to their faith. The money that a man has, he may lose. It flies away from him, perhaps when he needs it most. A man's reputation may be sacrificed in a moment of ill-considered action. The people who are prone to fall on their knees to do us honor when success is with us, may be the first to throw the stone of malice when failure settles its cloud upon our heads. The one absolutely unselfish friend that man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous is his dog. A man's dog stands by him in prosperity and in poverty, in health and in sickness. He will sleep on the cold ground, where the wintry winds blow and the snow drives fiercely, if only he may be near his master's side. He will kiss the hand that has no food to offer. He will lick the wounds and sores that come in encounters with the roughness of the world. He guards the sleep of his pauper master as if he were a prince. When all other friends desert, he remains. When riches take wings, and reputation falls to pieces, he is as constant in his love as the sun in its journey through the heavens. If fortune drives the master forth, an outcast in the world, friendless and homeless, the faithful dog asks no higher privilege than that of accompanying him, to guard him against danger, to fight against his enemies. And when the last scene of all comes, and death takes his master in its embrace and his body is laid away in the cold ground, no matter if all other friends pursue their way, there by the graveside will the noble dog be found, his head between his paws, his eyes sad, but open in alert watchfulness, faithful and true even in death

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