This is the perfect thread for me to seek catharsis........I came across this video yesterday and my heart has been heavy ever since.
The reason being, before we moved here I had a black lab.......She was my best friend. She was actually my exes dog but of course she never took care of it so I raised her up from a pup. She was in inside dog for the first year or so but....You know...Black lab.....It became a bus of a dog. I built her a pen but she hated it and busted out a lot, so after much frustration I just trained her to stay in the yard.
Anyway, me and the girl broke up and I let Sheeba move back inside......She was my best friend. Then I met my kid's mother, my daughter came along, and it was back outside with Sheeba. She didn't seem to mind it....but I figure chilling in the AC is much better than finding shade under the porch....So yeah, she was probably a little pissed.
FF to 2 years later, we had to move here to take care of her granny (the kids mother) and I protested because Sheeba couldn't come with us......I mean logically there was no way to choose my dog over my kids.....But still.....That shit was rough. So I collected her things and bought her about 3 months of food and got a guy who had a lot of land and dogs to take her in.....I didn't and don't trust shelters.......She watched me drive away with those big blue eyes and it broke my heart.....Almost to the point that I wanted to go back and get her, but that would put me back at square one.
I sat up, looking out the window.....Knowing she had superior jail breaking skills and hoping she found her way home, but alas it never happened. She probably thought I hated her ::HMM:: Going to get back in bed and sob now.