This Dog Protected A Toddler For 15 Hours In The Wild And Is Now An Honorary Police Doggo

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45. Growing up

I had a small mutt named, "Tippy," that I didn't realize how much he protected me. The only time I saw him bark at anyone was during a football game in the font yard. He thought the other boys chasing my brother and me when we had the ball was trying to do something bad. He nipped at one boy, and we had to put him in the backyard. We lived in a small town, and the city swimming pool was less than half a block away from our house. When we were younger, he would follow us to the pool, watch us check in at the lifeguard house, walk back around it to the fence closest to the shallow part of the pool to make sure we got in okay. He'd watch us for a few minutes, decide we were okay, then walk home. He was with us 15 years.

This may sound depressing, but the one thing I regret about being an atheist is not the prospect about losing out on eternal life for me, but there not being any chance of the Rainbow Bridge that pets cross over to wait for us. That poem always makes me cry - first at the thought of the joy my pets would be experiencing and then from sadness in that even if I were a believer, it's not exactly Biblical canon. But the time we have our pets, brief though it is, make them all the more special.

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