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Subject: I can't resist ... Posted by oldgirlCBR on June 15, 2008 at 09:56:11: In Reply to: adopted dog - when did you know posted by veeann on June 13, 2008 at 11:12:49: ... sharing a story. I picked out Reba, big gawky stripey 8 wk puppy tagging after her mom, mom turns around and "RAWRF!" meaning "sheesh, leave me alone for 1 minute will you?" Reba looks up, runs over to me (never saw me before), sits on my lap (I was cross-legged sitting on the ground) and falls asleep after about 15 minutes. "Let the puppy pick you ..." Is that what they say? Over the years I was constantly finding things out about her. She went stone deaf at 12 years old, and at that time I realized that she had been doing "come" based on my unconscious body-language, before I even said it. She was my fun-outdoorsy-buddy for the first 3 years of my life; then I was on my own, moving to a new place, and she turned serious and responsible. I remember once we were doing fieldwork in rural Mississippi, and I had *bad* exposure to poison ivy, getting worse by the minute (think elephant man), I passed a miserable night in a tent before my team broke down the next day and we went to the hospital in Atlanta. Reba slept every night like a rock, but I remember that night, in and out of sleep miserable, every time I opened my eyes, there was Reba laying there alert, watching me intently, blinking her big sober eyes. I think she lay awake all night just watching me. That's when I started to realize how seriously she took everything. "Don't urge me to leave you or to turn back from you. Where you go I will go, and where you stay I will stay. Your people will be my people and your God my God. Where you die I will die, and there I will be buried. May the LORD deal with me, be it ever so severely, if anything but death separates you and me." (Ruth 1:16-17 NIV)
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