I notice he got right up front in the picture. Good for him. How anyone can not love dogs is beyond my understanding. I've met a very few that unlovable but only a very few. Sounds like he was a great one. RIP little guy.
We all like to think of ourselves as rugged individualists. But when push comes to shove most of us are sheep who do what we are told. Worst of all, a lot of us become unpaid agents of whoever is controlling the agenda by enforcing the current dogma on the few rugged individualists who actually exist.