Cleveland Amory's quote helped me decide

by Gina
(California)

What a tragedy that some people choose to deny themselves the pure love of a dog ever again, because of the pain of losing a dog, and what an insult it is to the good times the departed pet gave to you throughout its life, to say that the pain of loss wasn't worth the joys of life and living together.

I admit I was on the fence until I read this quote.

"Unlike some people who have experienced the loss of an animal, I did not believe, even for a moment, that I would never get another. I did know full well that there were just too many animals out there in need of homes for me to take what I have always regarded as the self-indulgent road of saying the heartbreak of the loss of an animal was too much ever to want to go through with it again.

"To me, such an admission brought up the far more powerful admission that all the wonderful times you had with your animal were not worth the unhappiness at the end."

Cleveland Amory

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