-> ->  WC> Spanky serves as a companion dog for the disabled here
and I cannot
-> ->  WC> for the life of me find a single bad habit or incident
I'd alter in
-> ->  WC> this loyal, intelligent animal who has repeatedly
exhibited the very
-> ->  WC> best of judgement.

-> -> You know Wayne, I had a Newfoundland like that. He was the best PERSON I
-> ever

-> -> knew.

->  WC> Feel precisely the same here and I've expressed it precisely the same
->  WC> way many times.

->  Dogs lack vanity. If only more people lacked vanity too... how much more a
-> happier place the world would be.

Spanky smiles a lot when praised.
It cracks me up when the back last 1/2 inch of his lips turn shgarply
upwards.

-> You know I have had a question go unanswered. Maybe it's too obscene.
-> This is a better place to ask it perhaps. The question came up again
-> when suprisingly enough I saw it referred to by a popular columnist. I
-> can't be alone in this then.

-> When our pets are obviously dying do we keep them alive indefinitly by
-> artificial means? Of course not. We grant them mercy. 
   
I'll be facing that in a year or two.
My guy is already 25 percent past the average age for the breed but is
still going strong.

-> Why do not
-> humans accord the same to fellow humans who are dying or proven to be
-> brain dead?

Oregon has a reasonable euthanasia law.
Florida had Terri Schiavo :-(
I've still get a brain scan of her brain, what little of it remained
not replaced by spinal fluid.

-> It realy is a sick world we live in.

You know the only individuals in a position to change that,
but they seem more interested in war.

In the local news there's often a report on fighting Pit
Bull training camps for those that raise them to fight in for profit
gambling events.

To take such a potentally fine animal and turn it into a killing machine
is beyond repulsive.

I actually do not understand what people see in this _activity_
and I believe I'm glad I do not understand.
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