Although I had read a lot of stories with animals, especially pets, that had a big influence on their owners, I have never though this was possible in our real world. But now I realise how a dog can change someone's life forever!
             I don't regret a single minute that I brought Oscar home, although I knew nothing about dogs that time! On 27th of March 2003 he entered into my life and from that moment till present, I am living in another world! We took him from some friends just to help them because they had too many pups. We didn't even know how the breed looked like but 1 week before going to pick him I saw a german shorthaired pointer (Irbis vom Hege-Haus) in a magazine. He wasn't my first pet though, I had many hamsters, parrots, and fish so I had a bit experience with animals. I started to buy magazines, dog behavior and training books and to read everything that was o Internet about dogs! Then...I found some interested sites about GSP and a big passion for this breed started in me; although he didn't have pedigree, I continued to study and to look very carefully at his body and at the way he was growing, hoping he would be beautiful enough to enter and win in dog shows. Well, my prayers came true, although I didn't manage to get in the ring with him; he became a gorgeous, powerful and lovely German shorthaired pointer.
             He had been a naughty pup and broke a lot of things in my apartment, a lot of valuable things for me and for my parents but I thank them they hadn't given up and had kept him! Time passed, I was to dog shows (without him), I made a lot of friends by Internet, I learned how to breed better dogs and started learning about genetics! I suddenly discovered a new world, a new complex world that fascinated me so much! I knew I found my place where I belong! I’ve always loved animals, always wanted to do something that involves staying, having good care of them. This was so perfect! I decided to become a golden retriever breeder! And although I had Oscar, I wanted so badly to acquire a golden pup that I started to fight with my parents. I decided to wait though and I didn’t bring Oscar to dog shows either. Many times my parents wanted to give up and we were so ready to give him to someone else, but all the times we had changed our mind in the last moment. Unfortunately we kept him at our grand parents in the last half of year because my mother discovered that she was coughing because of his fur that was all over the house.
             I have to admit that I didn’t train him very good and he also was a very independent dog, so I had some behavior problems with him.
             As you already know, on the last day of winter, he escaped from my grand parents and since then I haven’t seen him anywhere. I’m sure someone took him from the streets, because he would have returned or I would have found him. Although months have passed, it’s still very hard for me to accept the truth; Now I start to regret I hadn’t made the most of it when I had had the occasion.
             Oscar left me so many great memories that now it hurts when I remember our adventures. Time will pass, though, and I will manage to smile again while thinking at him, at our time we spend together and at everything he changed in my life! But this story doesn’t teach you anything! The only way you could understand it is to acquire a dog!