A Happy/Sad Dog Story
This is a story with both a happy and a sad ending. Many years ago I lived in coastal North Carolina and was friends with the manager of the local bank who handled my accounts and was a member of my Rotary Club. Her widowed father lived alone several miles outside of town on his farm with only his treasured bird dog "Jack" for company. He took a two week vacation trip once and asked his daughter to look after the dog, and feed, water him, etc., while he was away. My friend very faithfully drove ten or so miles out and check and feed and water the the dog each and every day. The dog was being kept in a fenced enclosure with a dog house behind her father's house. On the very day before her Dad was to return home, my friend drove out to check, and behold - there was the dog lying in the middle of the road directly in front of the house, obviously hit by a car. The poor animal was still alive, so my friend tenderly and desperately gathered him up in a blanket and put him