No creature on this planet knows loyalty as well as the
humble canine. When you look at a dog with its human family, you see a loyalty
like no other.
This story has been circulating around social media for
years now. Dad was worried the family pit bull would be a threat to his newborn
daughter. He told his wife the dog would be gone at the first sign of trouble.
What he sees, though, is the polar opposite of what he expected. Dog truly is
man’s best friend, even pit bulls.
My wife and I owned two dogs that we had owned before we met
and brought into the marriage. Her dog was a pit bull/labrador cross named
Zack, and he hated me. When our daughter was born, I said to the wife,”If he so
much as nips at the baby, he’s gone.”
We brought our daughter home in a car seat, and both dogs
sniffed and licked her, tails wagging. I had to pull Zack away from her because
he wouldn’t stop licking her. Zack immediately became my daughter’s protector,
and when she was lying on a blanket on the floor, he always had to have one
foot on the blanket.
Zack loved my daughter immensely, and when she became a
little older always walked her to bed, and then slept on the bed with her. He
somehow knew whenever it was time to go upstairs, and he would wait at the foot
of the stairs for her, and then follow her up to bed.
Zack was poisoned by some dirtbag neighbor kids, and we had
one of the worst days of our lives. Watching my daughter say goodbye to him as
he laid still on the kitchen floor, my wife and I were both sobbing.
At 8:00 that night, my daughter walked to the stairs to go
to bed. At that moment, all three of us realized what was about to happen.
After 5 years, she didn’t have Zack to accompany her upstairs. She looked at
her mother and me with a look of horror and panic.
It was at that moment that my dog, who loved my daughter
dearly, but was not in Zack’s league, stood up, walked over to her, and nudged
her with his head. He put his foot on the stairs, and looked up at her. They
walked up to bed, with my daughter holding tightly to his neck.
For the next six years, until he died, Sam waited for her by
the stairs each night.
Thanks to SpockThe Dog!