bitter sweet:(

[Charlotte K.]

Thinking of you today.

[sheltieluver]

Capone is being extra naughty today maybe this is way of making today easy lol!!!

[FourLabsAndATri-Pawd]

No, they absolutely don't forget those who loved them.

I had a poodle as a child (from the age of 8); we went to England for a year to live with my grandparents when I was 15. Our girl went back to live with her breeder for that year. When we returned, my dad and brother went to pick her up and bring her back to my other brother's apartment where we were temporarily staying. The door was up a long flight of stairs; I stood at the top of those stairs and quietly said her name. She stopped in her tracks for a split second and then raced up those stairs to me..she was going so fast she was missing steps and sliding down again. Finally my dad picked her up and carried her the last few steps to me!

Our Murphy was a rescue of sorts; a co-worker's partner had an illness that resulted in a double amputation of her legs. Murphy was a rambunctious 2 year old Lab and they felt they couldn't keep him so we took him in. 4 years later, the co-worker and her partner came to a work party held at our home and when it was time for them to leave, Murphy slowly walked to their Van and climbed in. Luckily my husband was standing there and said to him "Murphy, you are staying here" - the boy bounded out of that Van barking his happy bark. (We later found out that he had been hit on the head with a 2X4 every time he came out of his crate happy to see them after they had been at work all day - his epilepsy was likely a result of that abuse!). Not only did he remember them, he remembered that he had lived with them and from the body language he had when he climbed in that Van, he remembered that he had not been as happy living with them.

They remember. No doubt about it.