The Day The Mad Dog Came

Story ID:	681
Written by:	Gail Lee Martin (bio, contact, other stories)
Organization:	Kansas Authors Club
Story type:	Period Piece
Location:	Woodward County Oklahoma USA
Year:	1905
Person:	my mother, Ruth Vining

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Posted 07/29/2006 12:52 by Carol J Garriott | Reply

Sis, out of all your excellent essays, this may be the best thing you've done! It's keen with anxiety and action as the family secure their animals, and filled with pathos. Anguish for the doomed dog makes us all wish he could be saved. Carol

Posted 07/29/2006 18:06 by Kathe M. Campbell | Reply

BRAVO Gail for this outstanding piece of writing. You had me on tenterhooks right up to the last sentence. Your descriptions were authentic for the period in every way. God love you girl......you're a marvel...........Kath

Posted 07/29/2006 21:02 | Reply

Its great Gail, good job!
-Debra : )

Posted 07/29/2006 21:27 by Virginia Allain | Reply

Mom - I remember you telling this story many times before you ever put it into printed words. Thanks for keeping the family stories for us.

Posted 07/30/2006 02:14 by Hal B. Larson | Reply

Thoroughly enjoyed this story - as an animal lover - sad about the dog. As an old Kansas (summer-time only) farm
boy smiled at the mention of banging the gate shut and having to slip a wire loop over the gate post. (That wire was very probably bailing wire)

Posted 07/30/2006 21:45 by Cynthia Jo Ross | Reply

This Mad Dog story along w/ watching Old Yellar had me scared for years. Sure made a believe out of me then & now. Keep the stories coming.

Posted 07/30/2006 21:46 by Cynthia Jo Ross | Reply

This Mad Dog story along w/ watching Old Yellar had me scared for years. Sure made a believe out of me then & now. Keep the stories coming.

Posted 08/01/2006 20:51 by Kathleene S Baker | Reply

Gail, this is fantastic! I was hanging on to the edge of my chair...excellent writing.

Posted 07/19/2007 04:10 | Reply

Wow and WOW, Gail...Your writing skills truly shine in this story! Scary tale, but a happy ending, thankfully.
Blessings,
Sandi in FL.

Posted 07/19/2007 07:21 by Gail Lee Martin | Reply

Thanks Sandi. I guess you would call this historical fiction as I just heard about that day so many times from my Mother and her sisters, but I was not there. Gail