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We love our pets. Lots of us offer our pets the prized place on the bed or couch. Most of us buy our pets Christmas presents. Many of us have a harder time watching an animal die in a Hollywood film than the main character. But is it going a bit overboard when we start out gathering statuettes of our pets? I say, “no.” We have photographs all over the house of our loved ones, why shouldn’t we have statuettes of our pets? Of course, this is easy for me to say, and perhaps it is even a little defensive. Why? Because I have over a hundred dog statuettes (a 101, to be exact!). To any “normal” person, that a great deal of dog statuettes may seem like an ridiculous amount. Of course, to any collector, it sounds like a comparatively little number. You may wonder how I got started gathering dog figurines. Well, to be rather honest, it did not begin out as a collection. In fact, when my beloved soft-coated wheaton terrier, Sadie O’Grady, died, I got a terrier figurine to place upon her urn. Somehow, I found it comforting to see the likeness of Sadie – even if it was in miniature. My dogless days did not last long. I went out and brought myself home a puppy the very next week. I decisive to stick within the terrier group, but I purchased a miniature schnauzer, Woogie, rather of another Wheaton. One day, when I was out buying goods at a garage sale, I found a dog figurine that looked almost incisively like my Woogie. Of course I had to buy it. After that day, I made a point of finding and buying any dog figurine that resembled Woogie. It was like a sort of happy pastime. Soon, I started receiving schnauzer statuettes each birthday and Christmas from my friends and family. I even received mug sets, t-shirts, pajamas, slippers, and other items, as well. After a while, people started sending me statuettes representing other breeds, as well. I started to display may dog statuettes in a gorgeous lit-up hatch. But they were soon cluttering it up, and I decisive that I had had sufficient dog statuettes for one lifetime. Of course, it was too late. My friends and family had already gotten too use to sending me a dog figurine or other dog paraphernalia for each holiday and birthday. It made their buying goods easy. I had never planned on starting a collection of dog figurines. Sometimes, it seems that a collection is something that other people choose for you. At least, this is how I felt. After Woogie died, though, I decisive to put an end to my collection. I thanked my friends and family for sending me so a great deal of gorgeous dog statuettes over the years, and then I told them to never do it again! To prove my point, I took the majority of my statuettes – all but my most cherished 101 – to a neighborhood yard sale. All but a few of them sold, and those I donated to charity. With the cash that I made, I went out and purchased myself another puppy, Shasta Daisy. I find that a true dog lover alternatively chooses the company of her dog over that of a few figurines. I still display my 101 dog statuettes in the hatch, but that is where they will stay as Shasta Daisy and I take a walk off into the sunset. |
