RE: [PyrNet-L] Fw: Old Show Dog Poem

["Ferreira, Elaine" <FerreiraE@aetna.com>]

I really should have saved this one to read at home. Now I am sitting here
at work all teary-eyed. I hate it when that happens.

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> From: 	Barb Bowes[SMTP:bamb@monmouth.com]
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> Sent: 	Sunday, January 23, 2000 9:49 PM
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> Subject: 	[PyrNet-L] Fw: Old Show Dog Poem
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> Thought all you "show" people out there might appreciate this.
> Get out the tissues though! This was sent to me by a friend.
> 
> Barb Bowes
> Bo, Molly, Chelsea (Pyrs) & Flopsy (Pyr Shep)
> The more people I meet, the more I like my dog!
> bamb@monmouth.com
> 
> > THE OLD SHOW DOG
> >
> > by Cindy L. Williams
> >
> > He was a real nice show dog, but his glory days are through,
> > And he gazes out the kennel gate, with nothing much to do.
> > They're loading up the van now, 'cause they're going to a show,
> > But his showing days are over, and he doesn't get to go.
> > He watches, tail a waggin', his eyes as bright as they can get,
> > As his crate goes in he wonders why they haven't bathed him
> yet.
> > Then your eyes meet through the kennel fence, and you have to
> look away,
> > How are you going to tell him that he's staying home today?
> > Retirement, they call it, now he's in his 'golden years.'
> > He doesn't look as old, though, when your eyes are full of
> tears.
> > And you think of all the rosettes, and the Best in Show he won,
> > The more he showed, the better he got, and then he had a son...
> > And so now for the first time, you are leaving him behind,
> > And trying to convince yourself he doesn't really mind.
> > He sees the younger dog get in, and he's looking pretty low,
> > But there isn't time to cheer him up, you really have to go.
> > 'Be a good boy, old dog, this time you have to stay!'
> > He doesn't bark or climb the fence, he simply looks away.
> > Just like a nice old show dog, whose glory days are through,
> > He gazes out the kennel gate, with nothing much to do.
> > Yes, he used to be a show dog, but the glory doesn't last
> > And he's gazing out the kennel gate, remembering the past.
> >
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