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The Dog Knew
by Dan R.

During the summer of 1997, while in the middle of a major publishing project relating to an international summit being held in Colorado, we learned that my mother didn't have much more time to live. She was dying from lung cancer in Kentucky. The pressure on me from this and work was extremely intense.

To maximize my time with her, I traveled to be with her as much as I could over the last six months. During our last trip, which our whole family made as it was over the Mother's Day holiday, she needed to be hospitalized in the early morning of the day we were supposed to return home. The emergency care physicians did their magic, and by lunch time Mom had recovered her appetite, was sitting up drinking coffee and chatted away. Her eyes were the bluest I had every seen them. They even sparkled! Upon her insistence, we returned home to Colorado that evening. She was going to stay in the hospital for the next day or two under medical observation.

The following afternoon, while in a meeting held in my office at home, our 10-year-old, big black lab-German shepherd pet dog, Pepper, came into the meeting and dropped his head in my lap and kept it there. He looked up at me with his big brown eyes and a very weird look. He then laid his head back down in my lap. Less than five minutes later, the phone rang. My sister was on the phone. She was in tears. She had called to tell me that my mother had just died a few minutes earlier in hospital. I believe, for some reason, Pepper has sensed that something dreadful had just happened and had come to comfort me.

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