A face only a mother could love

While walking home the other day from the bus stop with the grandchildren, I saw a lady in her driveway with a Chinese Shar Pei. The dog was black and it made me remember when we had a dog just like that. That was before the internet was as popular as it is now and I had a hard time finding out about the breed of dogs. Pet Information back then was just much harder to find. We had a dog that had many health problems when we got him. But the breeder wasn't going to do anything to help him. So being the animal lovers we are we agreed to keep the dog. After many hundreds of dollars spent at the vet we had a very loving dog. But seeing that dog the other day brought back memories so I stopped to talk with her for a bit. There is just something about dogs that seems to bring people together to share your pet stories. It seems like someone always has the best dog and wants to tell you about that animal. I really wonder what pets would say to us if they were able to talk. I believe that that dog we had would have told us how happy he was to be living with us than with the breeder we got him from.