“Destiny overtook a mother’s will,” says the message to my husband as my dog breathes her last. The hands that nursed her back to health after rib and foot fractures, the hands that cleaned up what she threw out from her mega-oesophagus (a medical condition) could not protect her from the cruel arms of Death.
Did she want to go? I don’t think she would ever have wanted to leave me alone.
It is by no mean twist of destiny that she entered a dry heart – mine, who once said “You can either have a dog or me in this house.” We are alone today, longing for nothing but a dog in our house.
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The loss of my dog changed my life, my world, and my soul… I send my hugs to you.
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Thank you so much!
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Yep, it’s a tough scene. Maybe they’re here to train humans to love and to experience loss.
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I guess that should be true.
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…and that is how many of us learn what unconditional love truly is. Lovely six.
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You are right. Thanks, Deborah!
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For those who welcome dogs as members of the family, it is nearly indescribable, the love experienced between dogs and their “people”. It is pure and perfect.
“Did she want to go? I don’t think she would ever have wanted to leave me alone.”
Beautiful line. Because no, she never would have. That is the devotion a dog.
Very poignant 6. .
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Thank you so much, Denise!
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Dogs are perfect lifeforms.
They give form to that most sought-after and rarest of qualities, unconditional love.
(Having been through the experience of losing a dog, I would say that it is a harsh honor when we have to watch them die. The pain very much an inverse reflection of the good they brought to our lives.)
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Yes. I read somewhere that the most evolved souls are given dog lives, not humans.
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We have a church pastor whose wife always said if you have a dog you may not have a wife. They have a dog now, and she is in love, and i know she will be the one to miss it in the someday hereafter.
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I can foresee the future. Thanks!
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I’ve had too many dogs grow old and die. I am pet free because I can’t take it any more! Good take on the cue.
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The separation is traumatic.
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Very well told. A dog lover myself, I can feel the emptiness.
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Thanks!
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