Monday, December 06, 2010

Photo: Dog In A Manger

This is one of those "Awwww" photos that people are always emailing to you with unverifiable stories about them.  I usually discard such emails with extreme prejudice; however, I love dogs and I love traditional Christmas scenes.  So whether the accompanying tale is true or not, I don't know (Snopes is silent on it).

The apocryphal tale is that the pooch was an abandoned dog who sought a warm place to sleep for the night, so crawled into this manger scene and cuddled up with the baby Jesus figure.  Someone later found a home for the dog.  Anyone who would abandon a dog of such beauty is a Grinch for sure.

6 comments:

  1. Is that beautiful, or what?

    God bless our four-legged friends!

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  2. Merci Stogie pour cette si belle et touchante photo ...

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  3. It was apparently in Brazil. More pics of the scene here (though there is no note of what happened to the dog):
    http://www.thedailytail.com/pictures/dog-stays-warm-in-jesus-manger/

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  4. Thanks for the link, HER. I do hope this beautiful dog found a good home.

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  5. My immediate thought when I saw this was "Not true, says it's a Church yard, but there are poinsettias, which are hot-house flowers". But if it's in Brazil, I guess maybe it could be true.

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