honey, when did we get a dog…?: a cautionary tale =)

so, among my MANY MANY pet peeves is people who treat their pets badly… you know the whole “oh i want a puppy, isn’t it cute, wait now it’s grown up and i never trained it so it’s eating my shoes and pooping inside, so out you go, dog” syndrome…which, unfortunately, runs rampant in college towns such as my own…

so here’s a fun story… =)

i have a friend, who, because of any laws he may or may not have broken shall remain nameless…we’ll just call him “dog saver”… who was walking home one night from a bar. he was somewhat intoxicated, thus the walking (good choice, dog saver!) and came upon a dog tied up to a tree with a rope in the front yard of a house.

now keep in mind, there were several houses in a row and since dog saver was a little blurry, in retrospect he cannot be SURE if there was any chance that the tree was not in between two houses, as opposed to clearly in front of ONE, but i digress…

dog saver proceeds to approach the dog to check and see if it was okay, and well, decides to lay down in the grass and “chat” with the dog for a bit.

after a while, dog saver decides that this treatment is unjust, and thus, unties the dog, walks up to the door of the house, finds it unlocked, and opens the door and puts the dog back in the house. and then continues on his merry way home again.

now you have to ask yourself…how long do you think those people have wondered and debated on how the dog got back in the house? assuming the dog was placed in the CORRECT house (and for the purposes of this story we are going to assume that to be true) i certainly hope there was enough mystery involved to make them think twice about ever tying that dog to a tree with a crappy piece of rope again… =) =) =)

so for any of you out there who really aren’t SURE that you want a dog OR that last shot of tequila at 12:59am…. ask yourself, “what would dog saver do???” if he were here to answer for himself, i think he’d tell you to let the dog go to a home that will REALLY LOVE IT, and he’ll be more than happy for that shot of tequila…and you’re buying. =)

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