WORTH READING 9 Mar 2005

Faithful Friends

Brownie and Spotty were neighbor dogs who met every day to play
together.
Like pairs of dogs you can find in most any neighborhood, these two
loved
each other and played together so often that they had worn a path
through
the grass of the field between their respective houses. One evening,
Brownie's family noticed that Brownie hadn't returned home. They went
looking for him with no success. Brownie didn't show up the next day,
and,
despite their efforts to find him, by the next week he was still
missing.

Curiously, Spotty showed up at Brownie's house alone, barking, whining,
and
generally pestering Brownie's human family. Busy with their own lives,
they
just ignored the nervous little neighbor dog. Finally, one morning
Spotty
refused to take "no" for an answer. Ted, Brownie's owner, was steadily
harassed by the furious, adamant little dog. Spotty followed Ted about,
barking insistently, then darting back and forth to a nearby empty lot,
as
if to say, "Follow me! It's urgent!" Eventually, Ted followed the
frantic
Spotty across the empty lot, as Spotty paused to race back and bark
encouragingly. The little dog led the man under a fence, past clumps of
trees, to a desolate spot a half mile from the house.

There Ted found his beloved Brownie alive -- one of his hind legs
crushed in
a steel leg-hold trap. Horrified, Ted wished he'd taken Spotty's earlier
appeals seriously.

Then Ted noticed something quite remarkable... Spotty had done more than
simply lead Brownie's human to his trapped friend. In a circle around
the
injured dog, Ted found an array of dog food and table scraps, which were
identified as the remains of every meal Spotty had been fed that week!

Spotty had been visiting Brownie regularly, in a single minded quest to
keep
his friend alive by sacrificing his own comfort! Spotty had stayed with
Brownie to protect him from predators, snuggling with him at night to
keep
him warm and nuzzling him to keep his spirits up. Brownie's leg was
treated
by a veterinarian and he recovered. For many years thereafter, the two
families watched the faithful friends frolicking and chasing each other
down
that well-worn path between their houses.

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