Remembering Tootsie (Rat Dog)
TheThinkingAtheist
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🗓️ 4 February 2019
⏱️ 29 minutes
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ARTICLE: "Why Losing a Dog can be Harder than Losing a Relative or Friend" https://bit.ly/2BfsT4z
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| 0:00.0 | Truth be told, my friends, I'm not really sure why I'm doing this. |
| 0:05.6 | I feel like I've already sort of put you through the mill with the loss of Henry and you |
| 0:11.5 | know, for those who might not have heard, we have two dogs. |
| 0:15.6 | We had two dogs, Henry and Raddog. |
| 0:18.0 | Raddog is Tutsi and almost three weeks ago, we took Henry and for dental surgery, periodontal |
| 0:26.2 | disease and he died on the table. |
| 0:30.4 | Nymus is shocked and it was awful and so, you know, Natalie and I were crying and sharing |
| 0:34.9 | that grief with the community because, you know, this community is embraced our whole family, |
| 0:39.0 | including Henry and Raddog. |
| 0:42.0 | And because Henry was a rescue, we ask if everybody would be interested in helping us to |
| 0:47.6 | fund a van, a rescue van for the very organization that rescued Henry. |
| 0:54.0 | I mean, they have this old van that has to be jump started off the lot. |
| 0:58.0 | It has no air conditioning. |
| 0:59.1 | It can't be used in the summertime. |
| 1:00.9 | It's just a nightmare. |
| 1:01.9 | It's a 20 year old van that it needs to be replaced and so we ask for like $15,000 |
| 1:07.6 | thinking used van and some graphics and maybe we'll raise the money in five days, you |
| 1:15.1 | know. |
| 1:17.2 | And this community raised $15,000 for the Henry van in five hours. |
| 1:23.8 | Natalie and I were just, I don't know that I have the words. |
| 1:28.0 | I mean, I don't know how to say what that meant to us. |
| 1:31.4 | And so we asked, do you want us to raise the goal and everybody said, yeah, raise the |
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