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NO PIT BULLS
WE WERE LIKE SO MANY PEOPLE THAT THOUGHT PIT BULLS WERE SUCH A HORRIBLE BREED, DANGEROUS, MEAN, MAN EATERS. THE SAME THING MANY PEOPLE THAT HAVEN'T BEEN INTRODUCED TO THE BREED STILL THINK TODAY.
SCOTT HAD WANTED A PIT BULL FOR MANY YEARS AND OF COURSE WE ALWAYS SAID NO.
LIKE MOST KIDS, THEY REALLY DON'T LISTEN TO THEIR PARENTS AND ONE DAY SCOTT BROUGHT HOME A VERY YOUNG PIT BULL PUPPY. IT TOOK ME ALL OF ABOUT 10 SECONDS TO FALL IN LOVE WITH HIM.
I HAVE RAISED DOGS MOST OF MY ADULT LIFE AND TRULY REGRET THAT WE HADN'T DONE A LITTLE RESEARCH AND CHECKED OUT THE BREED OURSELVES INSTEAD OF LISTENING TO THE MEDIA.
SCOTT NAMED THE PUP "DALHMER". WE WEREN'T REAL CRAZY ABOUT THE NAME BUT IT STUCK.
WHEN DALHMER WAS ABOUT 4 MO. OLD HE WAS STOLEN OUT OF OUR YARD.
I HAD TAKEN SCOTT TO ATTEND A FUNERAL OF A VERY CLOSE FRIEND, ONLY 16 YEARS OLD AND HAD DIED OF CANCER.
COMING HOME, ONLY TO FIND DALHMER GONE WAS ALMOST MORE THAT HE COULD HANDLE AT THAT TIME.
WE WERE ALL VERY UPSET BUT OF COURSE SCOTT WAS DEVASTATED
BY CARING NEIGHBORS AND KNOWING THE RIGHT PEOPLE TO ASK WE KNEW WHO HAD THE PUP BUT LOCATING HIM WASN'T EASY. HE HAD MOVED THE PUP TO ANOTHER TOWN IN TEXAS ABOUT 3 HR.S FROM US.
A SPECIAL THANKS GOES OUT TO THE ARANSAS PASS POLICE DEPARTMENT FOR ALL OF THE EFFORT THEY PUT IN TO HELP LOCATE AND GET THE PUP RETURNED TO US.
AFTER ABOUT 3 MO.'S OF
CO OPERATION WITH THE POLICE IN BOTH TOWNS WE FINALLY RECEIVED A CALL TELLING US WE COULD GO PICK DALHMER UP. THEY WERE TIRED OF THE POLICE CALLING, WATCHING THEIR HOUSE ETC.
SCOTT WAS AT WORK WHEN WE RECEIVED THE CALL. MY HUSBAND AND SCOTT'S OLDER BROTHER RANDY DROVE THE THREE HOURS TO
HOPEFULLY LOCATE THE HOUSE WHERE DALHMER WAS BEING HELD.
SCOTT WAS HOME BY THE TIME THEY RETURNED AND I HADN'T TOLD HIM WHERE THEY WERE FOR FEAR SOMETHING STILL COULD GO WRONG.
I DIDN'T WANT HIM TO GET HIS HOPES UP AND NO DALHMER WHEN THEY ARRIVED.
FINALLY, I HEARD THE TRUCK PULL UP IN THE DRIVEWAY. SCOTT'S DAD ASK HIM TO COME OUTSIDE AND LOOK AT THE TRUCK AS HE SAID HE HAD AN ACCIDENT AND WANTED HIM TO COME OUT AND LOOK AT THE DAMAGE.
SCOTT FOLLOWED HIM OUT AND THE DISBELIEF OF WHAT HE SAW WAS HEARTWARMING. WE BROUGHT DALHMER IN THE HOUSE, TOOK PICTURES, MEDICATED HIM AND JUST LOVED ALL OVER HIM.
SCOTT HAD ACQUIRED A COUPLE OF OTHER PIT BULL PUPS AFTER DALHMER DISAPPEARED BUT IT JUST WASN'T THE SAME. WE NOW HAVE BOTH OF THE FEMALES HERE. COCO ISN'T A PAPERED DOG, SHE STAYS IN THE HOUSE AND IS OUR PROTECTER, FRIEND AND COMPANION.
TEXAS TRAMP, THE OTHER FEMALE SCOTT HAD PURCHASED IS NOW A VERY BIG PART OF OUR BREEDING PROGRAM.
SHE IS A.D.B.A. REGISTERED. A COUPLE OF YEARS LATER WE WERE ABLE TO ACQUIRE ONE OF TEXAS'S LITTER MATES, SASHA AND SHE ALSO IS A FOUNDATION OF MANY OF OUR DOGS.
SCOTT DIDN'T GET TO SEE THEM MATURE AND TURN INTO THE WONDERFUL DOGS THEY TURNED OUT TO BE.
SCOTT DIED IN A VERY UNNECESSARY ACCIDENT THREE DAY'S AFTER HIS 20TH. BIRTHDAY.
RANDY, HIS BROTHER KEPT DALHMER. DALHMER WENT TO BE WITH SCOTT JUNE 10, 1998.
HE IS BURIED AT SCOTT'S SIDE WITH PERMISSION FROM THE CEMETERY.
MAYBE IF WE HAD INVOLVED OURSELVES IN THE BREED WHEN SCOTT WAS VERY YOUNG THINGS MIGHT HAVE TURNED OUT DIFFERENT. WE CAN ONLY WONDER.
WE JUST THANK HIM FOR INTRODUCING US TO THE BREED BEFORE HE DIED.
SCOTT, WE STILL MISS YOU AND LOVE YOU VERY MUCH.
MOM, DAD AND RANDY
8/9/73 - 8/12/93
O DEATH, WHERE IS THY STING? O GRAVE, WHERE IS THY VICTORY?
1 CORINTHIANS 15:55.6
Scott and Dalhmer
November. 1992
Sorry about the quality of the picture, an old Polaroid taken
the night Dalhmer was brought home.
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