Their Dog Was Missing For Days …But They Never Thought This Is How They Would Find Him
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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