We're Fostering a Former Laboratory Beagle - Experimentation Hurts!

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13. Dogs are wonderful.

Did not Charles Schulz write about the happiness of a warm beagle? There are so many dogs. Many people fall in love with a breed. I have to admit, that beagles form a "dogginess" that Plato would recognise. Here in the government kennels, and private animal shelters, i have noticed a preponderance of dogs that can be called "pit bulls" and pit bull mixes. These excess, and discarded hounds were created for a purpose. There are greyhound rescues that take in "retired" racers. Some dogs become fashionable, and then are dumped. The beagles were chosen for their convenience to be live testing dummies. Other dogs were sought to be used as fighters, or training bait.

Dogs are the most empathetic of creatures. Many have noticed this. Traer Scott has photographed, and written biographies of street dogs. There is a scene in Steinbeck's, Tortilla Flat about one of the bums and dogs, that can make one cry reading. Dogs show themselves as christian.

Que me amat, amet et canem meum.