HOLY TEAR-JERKING DOG STORY, BATMAN
10.01.09Oh my God. Warming Glow reader Jason sent this video along last night, and it absolutely destroyed me. Make sure you have a box of Kleenex ready before you watch this, because it is gonna take a lawnmower to your heart.
This CBS news report details the story of Ella, a Rottweiler found drinking water from a drainage ditch along the highway. She was thrown from the car when her family got into a terrible car wreck, and she spent the next two weeks at the same spot on the highway, collecting debris from the crash that smelled like her family and waiting for them to come back and OH JESUS I’M CRYING AGAIN. Just watch the video, okay?
(By the way, I have a Rottweiler mix named Stella that looks and plays just like Ella. If you think she slept on the floor last night, you are very much incorrect.)
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Sorry but seeing dogs on the side of the road is the norm in Tennessee. Lived there for 4 years. No one, especially in rural areas, feels the need to get their dog fixed. So you end up with a ton of unwanted and uncared about dogs. In that sense, this dog is doing great. When the puppies are finally old enough, the usual plan is drive out to a rural, farm-type area and just drop them off.
We pulled three out of the pound including a blue heeler that was found drinking out of puddles on the side of the road. We could never get her to stop eating worms for the rest of her life…loved’em.
Next, no one wants to be taxed there, so funding of the humane society is not quite up to snuff. But at least they’re not paying taxes, hurray! Stoopid government.
The family that is in the car accident and medical insurance is running them out of money; again, par for the course everywhere…getting teary eyed or thinking this is unusual is naivete.
We, the wife and I, found this story not shocking in the least.
That was a prototypical rural Tennessee family BTW. Older husband (?), younger wife with the hoop earrings, little baby. Oh the memories…
Bloody hell, I blubbed like a girl.
No fucking way I’m watching this. I got a little misty just reading Ufford’s summary.
Hope everything works out OK for Ella, but I’m going to look at some cats in wigs or something.
Saw this last night at work and immediately started to cry at my desk. Had to fake a sneeze and go to the bathroom to compose myself. Gotta love dogs.
I refuse to watch this. It sounds like the a real-life version of the “Jurassic Bark” episode of Futurama, which I can’t watch anymore because it makes me cry.
Sweet Rotweiller of Montpelier, that was a rough one. I don’t even like dogs… or people, and that got to me. Maybe it was the pudgy baby. Pudgy babies always do the trick. And car wrecks. Those rule, too.
I didn’t even cry when they hung me father for stealing a pig…but I’ll cry now.
If you think she slept on the floor last night, you are very much incorrect.
I’m beginning to question the nature of your relationship with Stella.
Seriously, though, if anyone tried to hurt my kitty I’d have to cut a bitch. People who directly abuse animals are the scum in my toilet bowl.
I really didn’t expect such an emotional story from the previously unemotional Anton Chigur.
This is how the plague started…dogs had sex to birds
I almost ironically hugged the life out of my dog last night when I watched this. Then he licked my face.
goddammit. I didn’t see the “family still being alive at the end of the story” angle coming. wow
STELLLLLLAAAA! STELLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLLAAAAAAAAAAAA!
I needed a box of tissues because that story was so HOT! Finished at the “slobbery suprise” comment.
@Vodka: I don’t disagree, but why not sick the pit bull on them instead?
@WDYA: Pretty much.
If you think for one second I’m watching this…
The dog next door to us died tragically (household accident) last week, and I was a mess. Why do dogs’ deaths affect us more than people’s? Is it because dogs are awesome and people suck?
This convinced me to take my unemployed ass back to the Brooklyn ACC to walk dogs today. If you think pitbulls are inherently mean, I will fight you.
lawnmower to your heart.
Next week, on Mad Men…
My dog Chloe always slept on my bed with me, fuck I miss her.
I’m glad I saw this last night, so I’m not an absolute disaster right now.
Well fuck, now I’m crying at work.
My puppy is sick this morning – he is currently curled up in a ball on the couch with me. This story destroyed me.
Whatever landlord said that the dog couldn’t live there with them should be disemboweled with a shovel.