A dog in peril

Today's Facebook Note

In my first mystery, The Queen’s Man, I had a scene in which Justin rescued a young dog who’d been thrown from a bridge into the Fleet River tied to a sack of rocks. I tried to set this scene in the medieval context, so there was not the outrage among the bystanders that you’d likely have found today. As proof of how our views of animals has evolved over the centuries, a real dog faced a similar fate in the Philadelphia area yesterday, deliberately tied to a rock in a creek so it would drown. This dog was rescued by a passerby who waded into the creek to save her, and the story not only made the local news, it is on today’s MSNBC page here.
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2013/... She is an elderly dog who has clearly suffered from abuse and neglect, but I will be surprised if they are not bombarded with requests to adopt her. In The Queen’s Man, Justin found himself “adopted” by the young dog he’d saved, and Shadow would later repay him in full measure.
I will not be able to spend much time on Facebook as I struggle to meet my looming deadline for Ransom, but I will try to stop by whenever I can give my Angevins the slip. Meanwhile, Charlemagne was born on this date in 742 and Henry III’s brother Richard, the Earl of Cornwell and later Holy Roman Emperor died in 1272.