<div>When I was a kid (4 yrs old) my Dad bought an English Pointer (now they're just Pointers, I believe). Anyway. The dog was from hunting stock, had been raised (more or less, more less than more) in a kennel, had never been in a house, heard a phone ring, been around kids.....and was 6 months old.</div>
<div>Punk never was properly housebroken. He never really, we think, learned his name. He ate all the wooden window sills on the front porch and part of the screen door. When my Dad died a few yrs ago and we went to sell the house, we continually had to deal with the question of, what happened to these window sills? He would not cross linoleum--unfortunate since he was fed in the kitchen which had a linoleum floor: would go up the stairs but Mother had to carry him down (and he was a moose) and at the Vet's would not get out of the car but braced all 4 legs against the door frame and SCREAMED. But he loved birds. He could find any bird in the Universe, drag you to them and point.</div>
<div> Dad gave him away to a friend who wanted a hunting dog. I hope Punk was happy, and I bet he was.</div>
<div>This is pretty typical of what happened to all the dogs we had when I was a kid. It was our fault, but we didn't know that. I look back now and am awestruck at our stupidity. We just weren't a good "pet" family. The Guinea pigs died, the fish went belly-up, the dogs all were crazy and cats were not allowed.</div>
<div>I look at my 4 Bassets and my Belgian and wonder how anyone could have been so dumb. Everytime we got another dog my Mother would say "Oh Beverly, not ANOTHER one!!!" LOL what would she say now! (Nebbermind: I know already.)</div>
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<div>MomPerson and Proud of it, to Nigel, Llewis, Mitchell, Zelda and Cooper.</div>