" I AM YOUR DOG "

I am your dog, 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 from 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 cloudy now. That comes

age. The grey hairs are begining 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 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 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 in a free distant land. I may not be here tomarow; 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 as ""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 profound about myself, or even life

in general. You decided to have me in your life because you wanted a soul to share 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 tomarrow, and life is so very short.

--LOVE , (on behalf of canines everywhere)

Author Unknown