I Am Your Dog

[Ickle]

[b]Thought the group would appreciate this
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Had to share this email


I AM YOUR DOG
Author Unknown

I am your dog, and I have a little something I'd like to whisper in
your ear. I know that you humans lead busy lives. Some have to work,
some have children to raise. It always seems like you are running
here and there, often much too fast, often never noticing the truly
grand things in life. Look down at me now, while you sit there at
your computer. See the way my dark brown eyes look at yours? They
are slightly cloudy now. That comes with age. The gray hairs are
beginning to ring my soft muzzle.



You smile at me; I see love in your eyes. What do you see in mine?
Do you see a spirit? A soul inside, who loves you as no other could
in the world? A spirit that would forgive all trespasses of prior
wrong doing for just a simple
moment of your time? That is all I ask. To slow down, if even for a
few minutes to be with me. So many times you have been saddened by
the words you read on that screen, of other of my kind, passing.
Sometimes we die young and oh so quickly, sometimes so suddenly it
wrenches your heart out of your throat. Sometimes, we age so slowly
before your eyes that you may not even seem to know until the very
end, when we look at you with grizzled muzzles and cataract clouded
eyes. Still the love is always there, even when we must take that
long sleep, to run free in a distant land.


I may not be here tomorrow; I may not be here next week. Someday you
will shed the water from your eyes, that humans have when deep grief
fills their souls, and you will be angry at yourself that you did
not have just "One more day" with me. Because I love you so, your
sorrow touches my spirit and grieves me We
have NOW, together. So come, sit down here next to me on the floor,
and look deep into my eyes. What do you see? If you look hard and
deep enough we will
talk, you and I, heart to heart. Come to me not as "alpha" or
as "trainer" or even "Mom or Dad," come to me as a living soul and
stroke my fur and let us look deep into one another's eyes, and
talk.


I may tell you something about the fun of chasing a tennis ball, or I
may tell you something profound about myself, or even life in
general. You decided to have me in your life because you wanted a
soul to share such things with. Someone very different from you, and
here I am. I am a dog, but I am alive. I feel emotion, I feel
physical senses, and I can revel in the differences of our spirits
and souls. I do not think of you as a "Dog on two feet" -- I know
what you are. You are human, in all your quirkiness, and I love you
still.


Now, come sit with me, on the floor. Enter my world, and let time
slow down if only for 15 minutes. Look deep into my eyes, and
whisper to my ears Speak with your heart, with your joy and I will
know your true self. We may not have tomorrow, and life is oh so
very short. --Love, (on behalf of canines everywhere) [/b]
Ickle

[imported_Kat]

That was really heartfelt. It sould be sent to all who own a dog.

[schippsmom]

:Dog_run:

:bigcry: :bigcry: I have to go see Re-Run now!!!

Paula & Re-Run

[courtnek]

I sat on the floor, with both of mine. Freebee looked confused, and backed up, then came back and laid down by me. She doesnt like to be stared in the eyes, it makes her nervous. Laurel stared back at me, then put her head in my lap and sighed...


8)

[mouseatthebusstop]

beautiful Ickle

[ellieangel]

Thats lovely ickle............I'm off for a cuddle too.......