Hi, Jack! Bye, Jack! A Flower For My First Dog 50+ Years Ago - IMRAN™

            Hi, Jack! Bye, Jack! A Flower For My First Dog 50+ Years Ago - IMRAN™
It was more than half a century ago when my late beloved parents got me my first dog, a beautiful German Shepherd puppy, whom they named Jack. I could only pronounce calling him "Kack". Or maybe I was wanting my cake, and dog, too. 
Even though I was a little boy, and many of the childhood memories of that age can get blurred (if not even fully registered in long term memory), among my many vivid memories from then include my time with Jack. I recall playing with him in our lawn, or under a large tree in the backyard, and around the courtyard. 
At that time my Dad was posted in a remote part of Punjab, Pakistan, with miles of wilderness around the irrigation department homes my parents and other professionals lived in. One afternoon a bunch of wild stray dogs got into the Canal Colony. 
Even though Jack was still really just a puppy, he went into protective mode and tried to fight them away. Several of them were able to put enough bites on Jack that my family was put in the difficult situation of having to decide Jack's fate, because the stray dogs had been deemed rabid. 
Unfortunately we were too far from any major city or a place to get a veterinarian to nurse Jack back to health. 
With broken hearts, my parents had to let someone take Jack away to keep me safe, and watch it and put it to sleep if it developed any signs of rabies. I did not see Jack again. 
Over the years my family and I have had a pair of samoyed puppies that grew up and lived with us nearly 17 years. a couple of other breeds, and many German Shepherds (imported from Germany by my sister and brother in law over the years). 
But to this day, despite his short time in my life, Jack remains my, and my family's, first dog, never forgotten. He remains immortalized in this photo taken by my father, as I held on to a flower, with Jack proudly sitting guard behind me. Good bye, good boy, great dog, Jack.  

© 1965 Anwar-ud-din
© 2019 IMRAN™  

   

Taken in: Pakistan / Punjab (show map)

Taken on: May 25, 1965

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Camera: HP Scanjet G2710 (more info) (hide info)

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