Man's best friend, as we all well know are dogs ! They have saved countless lives throughout history, the military and police find them INVALUABLE ! They protect us, they work with and for us and demand NOTHING in return except maybe a little love and kindness and enough food and shelter to get by.

I loved watching the advetures of LASSIE and the heroic escapades of RIN-TIN-TIN and who could forget all those great disney movies featuring dogs !

I always feel bad and saddened when people mistreat and abuse dogs also when I see them tied up and NEVER free to run around, make friends and enjoy life which they have a RIGHT to do !

But the worst thing of all is when people brutalise them as do the chinese ! to them dogs are just another food and the cruel and humiliating savage way they treat them is INEXCUSABLE, an absolute disgrace AND ABOMINABLE !

I am posting some famous dogs in this report to remind everyone of just how precious these creatures are. I can only hope the day will come when the chinese appreciate these wonderful creatures and stop torturing, tormenting and eating them, Up till now the Chinese have shown NO MERCY to these amazing animals and friends known as:

                                              " DOGS "

Old  Drum was a black and tan hound dog belonging to Charles Burden. On the  night of October 18, 1869 was shot and killed by Leonidas Hornsby,  bother-in-law and neighbor of Burden. Hornsby had many sheep killed and  had notified his neighbors that he would kill the next dog caught on his  property. The death of Old Drum resulted in three separate jury trials  and an appeal to the Missouri Supreme Court. It is third jury trial held  in the Old Courthouse in Warrensburg which is the most well known. Each  of the parties employed attorneys, Wells H. Blodgett, George G. Vest,  and John F. Philips represented Burden and Francis M. Cockrell and  Thomas T. Crittenden represented Hornsby. Vest delivered the closing  arguments to the jury and during his remarks he made no reference to  evidence previously present but instead delivered more of a "Eulogy of  the Dog" or "A Tribute to the Dog". It is from this tribute the saying  "Mans best friend" is credited: Eulogy of the Dog "Gentlemen of the  Jury, the best friend a man has in the world may turn against him and  become his enemy. His son or daughter that he has reared with loving  care may prove ungrateful. Those who are nearest and dearest to us,  those whom we trust with our happiness and our good name, may become  traitors to their faith. The money that a man has, he may lose. It flies  away from him, perhaps when he needs it the most. A man’s reputation  may be sacrificed in a moment of ill-considered action. The people who  are prone to fall on their knees to do us honor when success is with us  may be the first to throw the stone of malice when failure settles its  cloud upon our heads. The one absolutely unselfish friend that man can  have in this selfish world, the one that never deserts him and the one  that never proves ungrateful or treacherous is his dog.” Gentleman of  the Jury, a man’s dog stands by him in prosperity and in poverty, in  health and in sickness. He will sleep on the cold ground, where the  wintry winds blow and the snow drives fiercely, if only he may be near  his master’s side. He will kiss the hand that has no food to offer, he  will lick the wounds and the sores that come in encounters with the  roughness of the world. He guards the sleep of his pauper master as if  he were a prince. When all other friends desert he remains. When riches  take wings and reputation fall to pieces, he is as constant in his love  as the sun in its journey through the heavens. If fortune drives the  master forth an outcast in the world, friendless and homeless, the  faithful dog asks no higher privilege than that of accompanying him to  guard against danger, to fight against his enemies, and when the last  scene of all comes, and death takes the master in its embrace and his  body is laid away in the cold ground, no matter if all other friends  pursue their way, there by his graveside will the noble dog be found,  his head between his paws, his eyes sad but open in alert watchfulness,  faithful and true even to death.” This trial was won by Burden and  awarded $50. Hornsby appealed to the Missouri Supreme which upheld the  lower court's findings

                      TRUER WORDS....HAVE NEVER BEEN SPOKEN !