Ok Kiddoes, I remembered one more incidence from this time period.  When I was 13 or so my mother decided that my going a couple of houses over and talking with the old lady that lived there was sick.  She determined that the lady was trying to sexually molest me.  The rental house had a large pond that it was attached to in the back of it and her property abbutted this pond.  She was a sweet old lady and loved wild life as much as I did.   We could talk for hours about the wild life at the pond.  Her knowledge of plant life was also rather great and she showed me that there was wild concord grapes just for the asking.  A couple of days after my mother announced that this woman was evil I came home to find my dog dead in front of the house and my mother claimed that the old woman had poisoned him.  I clearly knew from the old ladies fondness for all creatures that this could not be the case and I said what I thought happened.  My mother had poisoned my dog out of spite!  I got a heck of a beating for that one but would not change my view of things.