Doberman Newsletter
Many of you have been on the list long enough to read some of my dumber moments when I should have trusted my dog and didn’t, I always like to share things like that so everyone can benefit. If you haven’t heard them before, you can read them on the blog. This story I am about to share is a true story of one of our Doberman friends who nearly lost her life as well as her dogs, and did lose everything else right at this holiday season. Our hearts and prayers go out to Melody and Cayenne and we hope we can help them in some way to get back on their feet. Perhaps some of you can help as well. Melody also happens to be one of our qualified victims on the waiting list for a new dog. This story has a resounding moral that we should all know well, and that is to trust your dog, even when you know they are wrong, trust them…
From: Melody Cuni [mailto:mcuni@sbcglobal.net]
Sent: Sunday, November 25, 2007 3:38 PM
To: Steve
Subject: Re: FW: Saphira
Just wanted to send a note to let you know I almost lost Cayenne (and myself). My house caught on fire last week and is just about a total loss! I had Cayenne in my room because she kept going outside and coming back in a whinning. I was like "what is your problem" and told her to come in my room and go to sleep." I had taken a sleeping pill (Ambien) which I wouldn't recommend and was sound asleep for three hours of the house burning. The neighbors said they heard her barking, which she doesn't do for nothing. I woke up and tried to get her out the window first but she was so afraid but jump. I jumped out first and went for the ladder to go back and take her out on the ladder but the police wouldn't let me go back in. They got the flames down and axed the door to get her but they had two fireman carry her out and she wasn't conscience. I did mouth to snout until they could get her oxygen and she tried to stand up and would just fall over. She is doing much better now. The fire started in the back of the house with the motion light. She must have known something was wrong and that is why she kept going out and back in whining. I always said they are trying to tell you something and I was just tired and went to bed and we both almost died because I didn't "LISTEN TO MY DOG" Lesson learned.
I see some good Emails from time to time that are worth passing on, and since I love Ben Stein, and since this hits the mark so closely I wanted to share it.
Worth the read!
A lot of truth in this
The following was written by Ben Stein and recited by him on CBS Sunday Morning Commentary.
My confession:
I am a Jew, and every single one of my ancestors was Jewish. And it does not bother me even a little bit when people call those beautiful lit up, bejeweled trees Christmas trees. I don't feel threatened. I don't feel discriminated against. That's what they are: Christmas trees.
It doesn't bother me a bit when people say, "Merry Christmas" to me. I don't think they are slighting me or getting ready to put me in a ghetto. In fact, I kind of like it. It shows that we are all brothers and sisters celebrating this happy time of year. It doesn't bother me at all that there is a manger scene on display at a key intersection near my beach house in Malibu. If people want a creche, it's just as fine with me as is the Menorah a few hundred yards away.
I don't like getting pushed around for being a Jew, and I don't think Christians like getting pushed around for being Christians. I think people who believe in God are sick and tired of getting pushed around, period. I have no idea where the concept came from that America is an explicitly atheist country. I can't find it in the Constitution and I don't like it being shoved down my throat.
Or maybe I can put it another way: where did the idea come from that we should worship Nick and Jessica and we aren't allowed to worship God as we understand Him? I guess that's a sign that I'm getting old, too. But there are a lot of us who are wondering where Nick and Jessica came from and where the America we knew went to.
In light of the many jokes we send to one another for a laugh, this is a little different: This is not intended to be a joke; it's not funny, it's intended to get you thinking.
Billy Graham's daughter was interviewed on the Early Show and Jane Clayson asked her "How could God let something like this happen?" (regarding Katrina) Anne Graham gave an extremely profound and insightful response. She said, "I believe God is deeply saddened by this, just as we are, but for years we've been telling God to get out of our schools, to get out of our government and to get out of our lives. And being the gentleman He is, I believe He has calmly backed out. How can we expect God to give us His blessing and His protection if we demand He leave us alone?"
In light of recent events...terrorists attack, school shootings, etc. I think it started when Madeleine Murray O'Hare (she was murdered, her body found recently) complained she didn't want prayer in our schools, and we said OK. Then someone said you better not read the Bible in school. The Bible says thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal, and love your neighbor as yourself. And we said OK.
Then Dr. Benjamin Spock said we shouldn't spank our children when they misbehave because their little personalities would be warped and we might damage their self-esteem (Dr. Spock's son committed suicide). We said an expert should know what he's talking about. And we said OK.
Now we're asking ourselves why our children have no conscience, why they don't know right from wrong, and why it doesn't bother them to kill strangers, their classmates, and themselves.
Probably, if we think about it long and hard enough, we can figure it out. I think it has a great deal to do with "WE REAP WHAT WE SOW."
Funny how simple it is for people to trash God and then wonder why the world's going to hell. Funny how we believe what the newspapers say, but question what the Bible says. Funny how you can send 'jokes' through e-mail and they spread like wildfire but when you start sending messages regarding the Lord, people think twice about sharing. Funny how lewd, crude, vulgar and obscene articles pass freely through cyberspace, but public discussion of God is suppressed in the school and workplace.
Are you laughing?
Funny how when you forward this message, you will not send it to many on your address list because you're not sure what they believe, or what they will think of you for sending it.
Funny how we can be more worried about what other people think of us than what God thinks of us..
Pass it on if you think it has merit. If not then just discard it... no one will know you did. But, if you discard this thought process, don't sit back and complain about what bad shape the world is in.
My Best Regards.
Honestly and respectfully,
Ben Stein
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