So today Muleteers I offer you my tribute to our Big Dog friend Indy and to all of those loving canine companions that we have been lucky enough to share time with.
"Dogs, bless them, operate on the premise that human beings are fragile and require incessant applications of affection and reassurance. The random lick of a hand and the furry chin draped over the instep are calculated to let the shaky owner know that a friend is nearby." -Mary McGrory
"He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion." -Unknown-
"The great pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too." -Samuel Butler-
"Dogs are our link to paradise. They don't know evil or jealousy or discontent. To sit with a dog on a hillside on a glorious afternoon is to be back in Eden, where doing nothing was not boring - it was peace." -Milan Kundera-
"The one absolutely unselfish friend that man can have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him, the one that never proves ungrateful or treacherous, is his dog... He will kiss the hand that has no food to offer; he will lick the wounds and sores that come in encounter with the roughness of the world...When all other friends desert, he remains." -George G. Vest- Speech in the U.S. Senate, 1884
"Dogs lives are too short...their only fault, really." -Agnes Sligh Turnbull-
I am off to provide the humans with ample snuffles, Roller Polar hugs, manes to sniff at for Eau de Pony and of course unconditional love.
Rest easy Indy xxxx
