Explaining animal breeds

I shall not only explain breeds but shall pass on a milennia of my personal pets, and as the list is long and varied and exotic, I’ll use the stratagem of earliest to latest, with most important factors for each beast. DOGS or CATS that weren’t interesting though I may have had them, won’t list.

FIRST, of great importance to me as a child was BLACKY, and English bull dog, born from his mother,WHITEY, and who lived his entire life near my side on our farm until his death just as I left for college. He was short, strong, black and white, had an amputated tail, and was strictly my dog. Though his temperament rarely showed on his face, he would instantly attack anyone he felt inemicable to me. Once he attacked a good friend as he came to visit me. I wondered about the unprecedented bite and found that my friend had spilled whiskey in his pocket. Blacky woud go into a rage at the odor of alcohol, and on another occasion, attacked a drunken bum who had accosted me and my brothers as we fished at a river.

But he was loyal, brave, beautiful, and quiet, not a barker but a doer. AVE ATQUE VALE!

DON was next, a 250 pound St. Bernard who came as a puppy and left as an elephant! Genial, loving children, he instantly killed any dog he saw who tried to intimidate him, and he ended up pulling sleds in Alaska.

Schultz, a sausage-hound, rode in my bicycle basket and slept on my bed until two ancient and very old lady twins begged that I give him to them…my last memory is of him very happy on a pink cushion in the octogenarian double-ladies kitchen.

Schweppes was a miniature Schnauzer, picked up wet and diry on a Texas highway, and lived as my wife’s loved pet for years until killed by a car in St. Petersburg, Florida as he was let out for 5 a.m. bathroom functions…he espied a female dog on the street opposite and was hit by a truck.

His outstanding factor was intense dislike of me, and he had bitten me severly several times, just for coming home from work.

ROGET was so named because he was Thesaurus dog in Florida. He was a two person lover, me and my wife, and would put any other human at bay at once. A Doberman, he had the true Nazi personality and died of lung cancer.

WALTER was a large grey cat who wandered into our Florida kitchen and wandered out three years later. His equipment was male, but he was totally female. A gay cat. He died of leukemia.

ISAAC was rescued when one of our patients died and asked us to ‘put down’ her 14 year old black