I got all teary eyed from reading that original post and then realising when it was written and that Duncan had passed on. I'm so very sorry for your loss. It's very clear that you two loved each other a lot! And even if you didn't know about his past, I'm sure the years you did have together were precious to both of you.

I gotta say I wonder about my Taggart sometimes too. I got him when he was about a year old or so and I know a few things about his previous "home" but obviously I don't know anything about his mother or potential litter mates. I wish I could see a picture of him as a puppy though. He's so darn cute as it is that I'm sure a puppy picture would just be total cuteness overload!

When I got Taggart he was wearing a collar that his previous owners put on him, which was clearly too worn and too old to have just belonged to him. Was the dog who owned the collar before him worth more love than he was, or did they just abandon that dog to a lonely life on a chain too? If they did treat that previous dog the same way... then why did they get another one?? People don't make a lot of sense sometimes.