A week after her husband passed away,
Sammy appeared on the farm,
desperately thin, filthy,
and injured with what appeared to be
several pellet gun wounds on one of his hind legs.
Johanna gently cleaned him, treated the wounds
and slowly fed him by hand,
coaxing health back into the sweet dog.
When Nella Mickle,
from nearby Richmond Grove,
arrived with her nephew to
reclaim her lost dog, Tanner,
Johanna responded,
"You just try and take him,
but I wouldn't advise it."
Frightened by the low, menacing growl,
Nella and her nephew left without the dog.
Johanna and her canine companion
were rarely separate,
sharing a mutual fierce loyalty
just like she had shared with her husband,
Samuel.
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