Please spend time with us. Our whole lives are spent focused on you. We just hope that you will be able to give us just a little bit of that back because a little bit of it goes a long way for us humans, WOOF!
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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 running there, often much to 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 you? 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 this 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 that you read on that screen, of others of my kind passing. Some times 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 with 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 an “alpha” or as a “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 about the fun of chasing a 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. Here I am. I am a dog, but I am alive. I feel emotion, I feel physical senses and I revel in the differences of our spirit and souls. I do not think of you as a “Dog on two feet”, I know what you are and who you are. You are a 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 into my ears. Speak with your heart, with your joy, and I will know your true self. We may not have tomorrow, but we do have today, and life is oh so very short. So please, come sit with me now and let us share these precious moments we have together.

With Love,
Your Dog
~ Dog Author Unknown
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Have a pawsitively tail waggin’, time with your dog, LOVE-filled day, WOOF!

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