Name an experience involving a pet or an animal which you will never forget.

Hi Debbie - yes, it did!  They say to use tomato juice, but it didn't work too well.  She had to be an outside dog for a while, poor thing.

This is a sweet story:  When we were children, my siblings and I were out playing in the local park which was surrounded by busy lanes of traffic. Long story short, I was suppose to watching the younger kids, but being a kid (9) myself, I got caught up on my games and looked up just in time to see my two year old brother on the other side of the park toddling off into the street.

I panicked and knew I would never reach him before he got hit. All of a sudden our dog, Goldie (a lab mix), who was playing beside me took off and reached my baby brother just as he was stepping foot onto concrete (the cars were whizzing by and blowing their horns but that's another story...idiots!). Goldie grabbed the baby by his diaper and began pulling him back into the play ground, and would not let him go until we reached him and took the baby to safety. I'll never forget that incident. That dog was treated like a king in our family from that day forward! Bless him.

Animals are so precious, aren't they? They keep us company, comfort us, and even save our lives and yet many of them are so horribly treated by their owners.  I'll never understand that.