who owns a pet. In life their are very few things that really stick with us . A pet maybe the biggest memory of our lives good or bad. We can all remember our first family pet for some reason or another , we had to take care of it , we loved it or it was mean for some reason you remember them. It never stops when you have children you usually have some kind of pet often a dog or a cat but in these days it is not always so, as many places do not allow and in Polo traveling it is a rough life often as many clubs frown on them and some do not allow them and it becomes a nightmare for them and you.
Well this is a story and a true one about me and my Family. When I grew up to be around Polo I realized this was not a good life for pets moving , hiding and traveling to numerous areas so I never had one after that
Well life changes and as we get older everything changes so as a million other people before me you have children and they want friends and in Polo that is not always a person because the next stop maybe someone you have never known or seen but a dog or a cat usually travel with you and they are their with your children and there is a bond . Life changes they rarely do they are there fr you but there life span is often much shorter than yours and they do not leave the nest as the kids do they just get left behind most of the time but they adapt and most of the time so do the parents as they are a reminder or a thought of where they come from your child who has now moved on. Anyway we were pet free for better part of 20 years then my son wanted a dog but talked him into a cat and that worked for 16 years and we had a great one but he had his moments lost in Florida for a month caught in a garage in Indio for a while chased by coyotes in Solvang and hunted by owls in DelMar but he always came home and then one day it was over and he had to be put down it was very sad but the thing to do . Then came the next generation my son had to have a dog as soon as he moved out to live on his own , which was fine it was his problem then the cat died and the daughter wanted a pet. Well what are friends for a Lady named Mary Jo said to my Daughter no problem we will find one and she did . So for 10 years we have had this little pain in the ass dog but not so bad as we lived in the same place most of the time but as usual who took care of it after a couple of years My wife, my daughter went off to the Univ. and left the dog home but just learned to live with it and that was it. Then about a week ago over 10 years later the dog his name is Tuffy gets sick on July 4 th weekend , finally find a vet and prognosis is horrible Cancer and not much time left .
So life becomes a circus vets trips and then the real problem comes the END . This is when the Vet says you should end the suffering and you know he is right, That my friends and enemies is when it is SAD

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