# Leona leaves $12 million to her dog, amusingly called Trouble – ah bless!

- Link: https://fundraising.co.uk/2008/07/14/leona-leaves-12m-her-dog-amusingly-called-trouble-ah-bless/
- Published: 2008-07-14T16:47:53+01:00
- Author: Howard Lake

So, where were you when she also left $8 billion for the care and welfare of dogs?
See http://curezone.com/forums/fm.asp?i=953357. Amid all the indignation around 
IFC Towers water-cooler this week is a sad realisation that we are still surprised
at the obvious. “Old lady cared for by dog but not family loses plot”, or should
we say, “old lady not even cared for by the charities she had supported all her 
life regains sanity and leaves all to her best friend and faithful companion.”

It is beginning to sink in that we are very good at caring for our beneficiaries,
but really rather rubbish at caring for our donors, in the obvious human way of 
showing compassion and generosity of spirit when their giving pattern changes. Should
we not be solicitous of their health and wellbeing when they are old and infirm?

John, thinking of changing his name to Rover, Baguley

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