[Dailydrool] Ol' Roy postscript

[Riche Churchill]

In previous post, I should have mentioned that I've not only owned dogs 
(or been owned by, more like) for 70 years, I am talking about MANY 
dogs. In the 60's and early 70's I was a breeder & exhibitor of Bassets, 
along with my mother and later my partner, and there usually were 10 to 
20 in residence. When I stopped that (partly because I grew to hate 
puppy buyers and mostly because I'd started the Bugler and felt it a 
conflict of interest) I and we still always had at least 10 and usually 
more -- mostly rescues.

And speaking of rescues, sometimes they were pups, but often they were 
full-grown of indeterminate age and who knows what they'd eaten before 
coming to live with us? Some were so emaciated they looked like hairy 
skeletons, but they went on to live long and healthily with us. In the 
previous post, I said all lived their average lifespan and beyond, but a 
fuzzy memory kicked in and I recalled two who did not. But it wasn't 
food-related, or at least not technically, unless you count eating 
foreign objects that cause obstruction. The first episode was 
successfully operated upon, the second time was misdiagnosed till too 
late and they did not survive..

Basically, my point is this: Feed what you think is best and-or what you 
can afford. No one should be made to feel they are "failing" their dog 
or dogs because their financial resources may be limited. Your dog or 
dogs have a life they probably would not have had without you. I'll bet 
they love you no matter what you feed.

Riche Churchill