utter loyalty

Reading this post about six utterly loyal dogs made my heart swell so much I thought it might burst.  Dogs so rule!  Think about it: your hamster may tolerate you, but is it really going to spend its remaining eleven years standing guard over the spot where you perished?  Hmm?

(And while I'd like to think that my Chloe is every bit as loyal, I'm a very reasonable woman, thus fairly certain that if I were ever to die while we were both lost in the wilderness, she would first eat me, then drag my clothes off to defile them under the gaze of a blood-red sky.  Sigh.)

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