I ran this truck right here for 25 years.
That trailer, 25 years.
The lawnmowers are 15 years, 18 years old, and they're still working.
That's American-made products.
Quiet.
What do you want to bite me for?
Quiet.
Quiet dog.
Hand car, look at that, ain't that nice?
I got it sealed.
I cremated what was left of his bones, all but his skull.
I kept the skull with the teeth.
Just in case someday I win the lot, I've got a lot of money.
I can have DNA maybe done on him, maybe have a reproduction.
Not be the same dog, but...
Where'd you keep that?
Right above the bed there.
Ain't that right, Ace?
But that's his box.
Yeah, uh-huh, uh-huh, Bill Maher.
I think it cost me a thousand dollars to do all that, you know, the time I got up there.
Took him around.
I took him to Missouri, took him to Michigan and Tennessee, and everybody came out and
wanted to... everybody come out and they packed the box.
Yeah, I said, you mean you went and dug that dog up?
I said, yeah.
I said, I went and dug him up.
I had wrapped him in plastic, so his bones were left, you know, and they'd been underground
for, it was 20 years.
And the plastic had kept all the bones together, you know, so I just...
I brought the bones and I cremated them myself, had a big shovel, you know, and I just put
the bones on there because they were, you know, real dry and everything, but I kept
the skull.
The skull's intact.
Like I said, that's...
He was a Labrador, Black Lab, and I never could have another Black Lab because of that,
you know.
Somebody had stole a whole litter of pups, but I think there were six of them in the
litter, some young people, and then they threw them out on the side of the road out in the
country.
Well, Harold, at four weeks old, he went about a mile out of his way down to where I was
at.
Come here.
And the rest of them stayed out on the road and people found them and it was belonged to
a farmer just a little ways away.
And well, I opened the door one day and there was Harold sitting there, a little Black
Dog.
I didn't know what he was.
And I opened the door and I said, well, come on in, you know, and he just walked in.
I looked at him and the way he looked, I just said, well, I said, I'm going to call you
Harold.
See, I was out in the country by myself, but I didn't want to talk to a dog, you know,
I wanted to sound like I'm talking to somebody.
So I kept him for about a month and then I found out the old farmer who had the litter.
So I took him back over to the old farmer and I said, hey, I said, I think this is one
of your dogs.
I said, I heard you had a litter that was stolen and he said, yeah, he said, I got back
every one of them, but one.
And I put Harold down and he ran over and, you know, said hi to his mom and then he ran
back, sit down next to me and I said, oh, dog.
I said, well, how, you know, I said, how much do you want for him?
He said, the guy said, give me 25.
He says, that covers the papers.
He says, you know, so I gave him $25 and the dog just stayed with me from then on.
When JR was born, when I brought JR home, I came up to Harold and I said, now here,
you don't have to take care of me no more, now I want you to take care of him and I want
you to make sure nothing happens to him.
That kid right there would, he'd pull his ears, you know, and he'd get on his back and
crawl all over.
Dog just lay there, you know, he'd roll over and let him do whatever he wanted to do.
I used to put him on his back and try to hold him like he was riding a horse.
No delmer.
Oh, you're such a lovely dog, yeah.
You don't know it, but you're looking at a unique dog.
We had him cut when he was six months old because his teeth are crooked, see.
So you know, we couldn't, you know, use him in the show, you know, show ring.
And you just, you don't know what, you know, you don't know about stuff like that until,
you know, a dog gets a little over.
So we had him cut and whenever our females come in heat, he breeds them.
Now he don't produce nothing, but I've never seen, I've never seen, I've never seen a dog
have been cut.
He'll breathe like he does.
These girls dogs, they just love him to death when they're in heat, you know.
Delmer's a lover, ain't he?
Delmer's a lover of dogs, that's what he is.
I call him Ace because he's my ace in the hole.
He's my ace in the hole, yeah, there, there, yeah, yeah, get down now, get down now.
Everyone of you going to wind up in this box one of these days.
I have people that come up to me and they'll be at the peanuts and they'll be talking about
well, I just lost my dog, they'll say, they'll say, well, I know it sounds funny that I'm
crying about my dog.
I said, hey, hey, you're talking to the wrong person, talk that way too.
I said, I'll tell them, I said, I drove 2,500 miles to dig up my dog, been dead for 20
years and brought him back home.
Then people attitude would just, they'll open up to me and start talking.
But I understand.
Delmer, oh Delmer, yeah, Delmer's a lover dog, he's a lover dog, ain't he?
Delmer, oh Delmer, don't go away.
