Dogs you have owned....

.....who got a real break from a good guy.....ME. Jiggers was a small Schnauzer that got his start with my wife feeling sorry for her mother after the lose of one of her dogs. He got the best of care but after a yr or two the need went away so the MIL gave him to her daughter and SIL who really never had time for the deserving feller. They kept him penned up in the house in town while they would go away for the weekend. That's cruel. During one of those weekend retreats my other BIL also felt this was wrong so he went over and broke in the house and took the dog home with him........for a few months......then back to the MIL's place. I never really heard of all of this going on until after the fact then one evening we were at the MIL's place for a visit.....yea right......i think the wife had something up her sleeve. We got in the truck fixen to go home when the wife ask if we can take Jiggers home....and that's when i set my foot down. I informed her we would take him but the first SOB that laid a hand on that dog and tried to remove him from my possesion would be taking an *** whoopin. He became my constant companion for several years. When i would take Anne and Honey coon hunting at night Jiggers would go along and when you would shoot what ever was in the tree Jiggers was the first to have fur in his teeth when it hit the ground. He was hell on snakes also. He would patrol the area around the house looking for something that was going to harm one of the kids. He'd been bit many times but always recovered. One tough feller. I would trap rats in the barn in a live trap and take em out in the mowed lawn and set it down and open both ends. Jiggers was right there waiting for the rat to take his best shot. The rat would fake right and then go left only to become aware of the fact that that dog was too quick. Another rat done gone. In his later years he got to where he couldn't hear and was blind but one day it got to the point to where it was bothering me to see him suffer so i put him down. Hard thing to do but necessary. Next will be the story of two black and tan beagles named Tuffy and Little Bit. There are many more stoies for me of several great dogs.