Quote Originally Posted by Pedal Wench View Post
Wow! That is OLD! I lost my first male in a divorce, but had my baby girl until she was 8. She died probably 5 years ago and I'm still finding slober in the strangest places. (How did it get on the back side of the lampshade???) I never thought of trying to ride with her - she was kinda goofy and impossibly stupid (would walk into a corner and cry because she couldn't figure out how to get out) but she liked to be right by my side every minute - I miss her.
Hijack alert...

Mouse is stupid. He growls at the doorstop. Nixon was not (for a mastiff...he wasn't an Australian Shepherd doing stuff like Trig and Logic). But he was SO loyal. My 16 year old stepdaughter forgot about him last summer after putting him outside and left him there (he was getting slow coming in), despite the fact that I had put a big sign on the door "MAKE SURE NIXON IS IN BEFORE YOU LEAVE!" It was 105 degrees and when I got home he was convulsing under a bush. I had a FIT. I am cool under pressure but I went nuts. I couldn't lift him, so I got the hose and tried to hose him off. I called down to the vets office literally 1/4 mile down the road and begged them to come and put him down because I couldn't get him in the car. I know how to do dog CPR (I was a vet tech after college) but he was too far gone.
He died before the vet got to me....although bless their hearts they tried. It was almost as difficult for me to find the grace not to strangle my stepdaughter (now my ex-stepdaughter), somehow I didn't.
Truly great dogs come along only once in a while. I have had lots of good dogs...Mouse is one. I have had a couple of bad dogs...no personality or just not there on the same wavelength...Nixon was a GREAT dog.
Funny enough, one of the other great dogs I knew was a mastiff. Not mine, but he was a great dog.
End of hijack...sorry...I love to tell other mastiff people about my boys.