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Ok, so these were both on my Berner list. They were too delicious not to share. I'll have to post them separately due to word count constraints, but they are both awe inspiring, regardless of how close I believe our Newfs and our Bernese Mtn Dogs are to each other....
A beautiful story...
Posted by: "Elizabeth Malcolmson" elizabeth@malcolmson.org spookagain
Mon Jul 6, 2009 7:47 pm (PDT)
So I'm out walking two of the hooligans tonight when we bump into this
lady walking a mixed breed who seems a little speechless about my
dogs... Is she upset because my two broke their stays to go and say
hello while I was picking up after them? No, she's actually just
feeling verklempt at the site of two Bernese Mountain Dogs... It
turned out that about ten or twelve years ago her big male Berner
passed away from cancer at around the age of eight... Darby was
clearly her "heart dog." We walked along a bit and she decided to
tell me this story...
When Darby got sick and was at the veterinary hospital, she needed to
come up with $1,000 to get him out so she could bring him home. She
was going through a divorce so money was tight... She had this clock,
though, and she took it to someone who knew something about clocks --
fixing them, selling them -- and said, what would you give me for this
clock? He said, what do you need the money for? She said, I need to
get my baby out of the hospital. He said, how about $1,000? And that
was exactly what she needed. So she left the clock with the man and
she brought home her beloved dog who passed away soon after. A short
time later, the clock man called her... He had been investigating the
clock, cleaning up its workings, researching its history... Would she
like this item he had found inside the clock? Of course, she said...
The item was a very small gold wedding ring engraved with the words,
"All My Love Always." And did she know, the clock was made in Darby,
England? The clock itself was later sold to a paraplegic who wanted
something lovely to look at...
And with that, the lady who has been wearing the gold band since 1997
on her pinky finger simply said, "good-bye" and walked away...
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Elizabeth Malcolmson with
'Manda, "successful rescue"
UCD Ledgewood's Bernoulli CD RN DD, Can. CD (Miss Jago)
Ledgewood's Toscanelli (Tosca)
Rockport, MA, USA
Treasured beyond measure in memory:
Can. OTCH, UOCH Ledgewood's Ptolemy UDX, DD, Can. DD
Can. CDX, UCDX Galileo's Blue Moon Zoey UD
Tycho's Night Skies
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A beautiful story...
Posted by: "Elizabeth Malcolmson" elizabeth@malcolmson.org spookagain
Mon Jul 6, 2009 7:47 pm (PDT)
So I'm out walking two of the hooligans tonight when we bump into this
lady walking a mixed breed who seems a little speechless about my
dogs... Is she upset because my two broke their stays to go and say
hello while I was picking up after them? No, she's actually just
feeling verklempt at the site of two Bernese Mountain Dogs... It
turned out that about ten or twelve years ago her big male Berner
passed away from cancer at around the age of eight... Darby was
clearly her "heart dog." We walked along a bit and she decided to
tell me this story...
When Darby got sick and was at the veterinary hospital, she needed to
come up with $1,000 to get him out so she could bring him home. She
was going through a divorce so money was tight... She had this clock,
though, and she took it to someone who knew something about clocks --
fixing them, selling them -- and said, what would you give me for this
clock? He said, what do you need the money for? She said, I need to
get my baby out of the hospital. He said, how about $1,000? And that
was exactly what she needed. So she left the clock with the man and
she brought home her beloved dog who passed away soon after. A short
time later, the clock man called her... He had been investigating the
clock, cleaning up its workings, researching its history... Would she
like this item he had found inside the clock? Of course, she said...
The item was a very small gold wedding ring engraved with the words,
"All My Love Always." And did she know, the clock was made in Darby,
England? The clock itself was later sold to a paraplegic who wanted
something lovely to look at...
And with that, the lady who has been wearing the gold band since 1997
on her pinky finger simply said, "good-bye" and walked away...
========================
Elizabeth Malcolmson with
'Manda, "successful rescue"
UCD Ledgewood's Bernoulli CD RN DD, Can. CD (Miss Jago)
Ledgewood's Toscanelli (Tosca)
Rockport, MA, USA
Treasured beyond measure in memory:
Can. OTCH, UOCH Ledgewood's Ptolemy UDX, DD, Can. DD
Can. CDX, UCDX Galileo's Blue Moon Zoey UD
Tycho's Night Skies
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