tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5425550699774238271.post93677690819501412..comments2024-02-25T02:41:43.023-07:00Comments on North of Andorra: The Nine Lives of O'MalleyNorth of Andorrahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06199381759209397228noreply@blogger.comBlogger1125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5425550699774238271.post-34984377465935080522008-01-20T18:43:00.000-07:002008-01-20T18:43:00.000-07:00I haven't visited the blog in a while, so I only j...I haven't visited the blog in a while, so I only just read this story. I can only say to anyone who never had the chance to meet O'Malley that he was a dog like no other! He did have a streak of wild in him but that was why it was so special to sit and pet him and have him nuzzle my leg. It felt like I had momentarily tamed a wild bear. I will never forget when we went to that house in the Paradise Valley area in the summer one year, I had flown up from Texas and was sort of feeling a bit sad and lonely in my struggling relationship with John. O'Malley was a young boy then, I think, but I slept in my sleeping bag on the floor in the living room and he laid right by my side every night. I think somewhere deep down he knew I needed somebody to hang with. I can always see O'Malley's tail in my mind's eye sticking up in the air as he walked or ran up ahead of us on many a hike or ski. He was as much a part of our family as any human.<BR/>I always remember the words you said to me Doug when I had to put Huey to sleep, you said that is part of the deal we make when we agree to become a pet owner, that we have to make the decision sometimes when it is more humane to end their life then it is to let them suffer. That isn't one of the things you usually think of when you are looking at the fluffy little critter you are about to adopt. But, as you go through life with a dog you do come to realize that is as much a part of ownership as all the rest. <BR/>Cheers to O'Malley- he was one of the finest!<BR/>Love,<BR/>AmyAnonymousnoreply@blogger.com