Friday, December 25, 2009

Marley and Me = Bear and Jordan

is it just me or is Marley and me one of the greatest movies of all time. This movie really touched me. 99.9% of the time I never get emotional about movies. Something about Marley and Me though brought up memories of Bear my first dog before I became a South African Boerboel Breeder. Marley even looked like Bear Bear had a little bit of retriever in him. His girlfriend Mable who still comes over looking for bear even though he has been dead for 2 years now was is also a retriever. So forgive me for getting a little mushy over Bear but he was a friend brother and probably the best dog that I have ever owned.

Bear was a symbol of our neighborhood. people still remember him. When we were kids Bear went everywhere with us. When we left and went in the streets bear followed. When we went to the park to play sports bear was there. Bear was the man. HE was so good he never even wore a leash in fact we would let bear out and he would walk himself. Some days he went for short walk just to use the bathroom and then there were days when he would not even come home. These were the days that we knew a local female was in heat and bear was probably spending the night at one of his bitches house. Some time we didn't see bear for 3 or 4 days but that was normal for certain times of the year. One of our neighbors even stopped us and told us that he caught bear breaking into his patio where his husky was in heat. Luckily she was in a cage. . Our neighbor told us that we would have to pay to replace the hole in his patio that bear had ruined and the next time he caught him any where near his home our dog was going to disappear. He was very upset.

One time Bear went to another neighbors house and was spending the night there when he was attacked by a pack of stray dogs one of them a 3 legged rottweiler. She called the apl to tell them that a pack of dogs had moved onto her yard and she needed them removed. They came out and took the dogs away all but bear. our neighbor walked bear down us with her dog and told us what had happened how bear took on the whole pack of dogs solo. She told us how bear was so sweet she did not even mind him humping her dog. When the animal catcher came she wanted all the dogs gone except bear. as she told me the story Bear mounted her dog and began humping like crazy then he stopped and could not move. He was stuck to the ladies dog. I later found out that bear had just had sex with her. I was just a kid then. The lady say oh god they are stuck get the water hose and wet them up thats how you get hem apart. didn't know then but the best thing to do is just let them do it on their own.

Another time Bear was stuck to yet another of our neighbors dog. This time it was my good friend digity's dog. Well because we were still kids it was actually his moms dog. She came outside and saw bear stuck to her dog and she was furious. She told me to get my dog off of her immediately or she was going to sue us. For some reason this time Bear did not get her pregnant.

The only time bear would stay away longer then 3-4 days is when he was in jail. Yep Bear was in jail 5 times. One time we got there just before he was executed. Yep they had bear on death row. and we got there just in time to save him. We had to bring a photo of him. They did not just take our word for it that bear was our they needed proof. And the got all the proof they needed when bear seen us. We were to happy to be reunited with him. and he was over joyed to see us. The people at the apl said that this was the most movement that they had saw from him
To be continued.......