Your story about the pups visiting their people at the hospital gave me warm fuzzies.

I hope that if I'm ever in that situation, someone will do that for me.
I pray that little beagle finds his way home, poor guy.
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He is your friend, your partner, your defender, your dog. You are his life, his love, his leader. He will be yours, faithful and true, to the last beat of his heart. You owe it to him to be worthy of such devotion. -- Author Unknown