I was just sent this & watching it made me cry and want a new dog even more. God bless dogs and their unconditional love. Gosh, I'm really missing Nikki who died this year. Please watch - it is truly wonderful.
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for all you dog lovers (and even those who don't like dogs)
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gracie
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onederfullone
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gordy
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Nora Bell
offlineMember+3 That was beautiful.
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gracie
offlineMemberTotally agree. My nephew's dog, who just recently died, was just like this dog & looked like dog except black. She would put her paw on your knee & just look at you with soulful eyes. I told my nephew & his wife that I felt like she was an reincarnated soul of someone we loved in the past. There was just a connection with that dog.
If anybody could find something smarta*s to say about this video, they just don't have a kind soul.Posted 5 months ago # -
Ernie
onlineMemberGreat post gracie. I found the original video, without music and religious messages, to be even more moving....
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SmartsyArtsy
onlineMemberIsn't nature beautiful!? thanks for posting.
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cloudblues
offlineMemberKinda looked to me like the boy spends the whole video trying to get the dog OFF of him?
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ballardgirl
offlineMember;) Fantastic! We have a dog at work (not mine) who will come up and paw any of us when we are stressed, he reminds us to chill a bit!
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gracie
offlineMemberCloud - look at the youtube Ernie posted. You will see this wonderful little child reaching out for the dog.
ballardgirl - my darling dog Nikki, who died this year, if she heard me crying (like when I got news my other dog who had been probably poisoned died), she got up on my lap, put one paw on each shoulder & then put her head next to my cheek & just stay there. I didn't teach her that - she did it on her own.Posted 5 months ago # -
BuffaloHawk
offlineMemberWTF !!! Who would poison your dog and why? That is horrible if true.
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gracie
offlineMemberHave a nutjob of neighbor at end of block who thinks he owns the block. Some dog had just pooped on his parking strip & he came to my house yelling it was my dog. Based on fact guy working on his house saw me with a dog in my car. I informed him we were gone all day (myself & dogs). He continued yelling & I finally made him get off my property. He made idle threats thereafter. Total nutjob.
Vet said due to how soon my dog got violently ill, it was poison. (I came home to find her vomiting blood & blood coming out her mouth) The day I came home after leaving her at vet there was another note from him accusing my dog of again the same thing. I left a note on his door next morning saying that while some dog was pooping on his parking strip my dog was in the vet & that she died. Vet said poisoning and ended note with "And WE ALL KNOW WHO DID IT." He never came and denied it. Nor did he come down and ever complain. May he rote in Hell. She was a super sweet dog & for her to die that violently made me extremely mad and sad.Posted 5 months ago # -
SmartsyArtsy
onlineMembercloudblues, I thought so too until I watched the unedited and annoyingly annotated version that ernie posted.
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SmartsyArtsy
onlineMemberA week after I adopted my first dog, I got some very sad news. I walked over to the park with her where she was used to playing off-leash in the a.m. On this trip, she was on-leash sitting next to me on a hill. I was crying and she kept getting closer to me, resting her head on my lap, then stretching up and licking my tears. That made me cry even more!! She was a shepherd/hound mix only 5 mos old, and usually non-stop motion, and here she was being so sweetly empathetic, just there to comfort me and ignoring all the action around and below us on a beautiful sunday afternoon.
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cloudblues
offlineMemberSmartsy, I did watch Ernie's video. Watched it again just now - the boy reaches out and shoves the paw off of him, over and over, and then also shoves the dog's head away. Every time, he moves the paw off of his leg, and scoots away or tries to crawl away.
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Ernie
onlineMemberI push my dog's gross slobbery face away from mine all the time, doesn't mean he's not sweet as hell for trying to lick my eyeballs out!
Hard to tell what the kid is thinking, but at no time does he look upset, and he spends almost the whole video looking at and interacting with the dog. I just think it is beautiful, how sweet and gentle the dog is, even when the kid is grabbing his face and pushing it away.
Certainly no dogs, or little kids were harmed in the making of that video.
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gracie
offlineMembercloud - he also reaches for the dog, leans into it. Whatever take you make of it, to me it is a beautiful interacation between this child and dog.
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cloudblues
offlineMemberWow. I must be watching an entirely different video. Every time he "reaches for" the dog, it's because the dog put his paw on his leg and he *moves the paw off* and then scoots away. Why am I the only one seeing it? Man, maybe I've finally (HA, my acqaintances say) gone insane.
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great idea
offlineMemberI'm seeing it as you do cloudblues.
this dog is just like mine (and most I've encountered) who keeps weasling his snout into my hand so I can scratch him. the boy doesn't seem too interested after the initial contact, but that dog is persistent!
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gracie
offlineMemberIn Ernie's version of the video on YouTube (see his post) very clearly the very beginning this child reaches for the dog's paw.
LIke I said however you are seeing it, I, and others, see it differently. And it all gets down to how caring animals can be with humans - the unconditional love.Posted 5 months ago #
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