This shot seems to sum up so much about my dog buddies over the years. I’ve managed to be friends with a bunch of this type. Just a sack of unconnected dog parts with no real reason to exist other than to take up space in my house. Like all my friends. Bless em all. I can say that I’ve never had a “pet” but, I’ve had a lot of “friends”, or they had me. A couple of times it felt just like I’d been had. Each one of them made me smile and often laugh and each of them broke my heart when they had to go. They say that dogs don’t go to heaven and I think “they” are wrong. Any time I meet people who don’t like dogs I know all I need to know or want to. What kind of God wouldn’t like dogs. He went to the trouble of making them so I would expect he’d like them enough to let them in the “house”. I hope so because I don’t think I’d like to go anywhere that my friends couldn’t go too. It’s New Years Eve and I’m sitting here in Baja remembering all my old friends and couldn’t leave out the ones that loved me every time without question.
January 12, 2012 at 1:28 am |
And “No”, this is not the girl I woke up with on January 1st.
January 4, 2012 at 3:02 am |
Had a minister in a confirmation class get into this. Our mother roared into his office and said: “I don’t know about your dog but ours IS going to heaven. Please stop upsetting my children with this.”
I agree with you. If there is a heaven, they are there. They could not become so close and responsive and not be. They have made me a better communicator and nurturer all around. And they sacrifice for us. Great post.
January 4, 2012 at 3:06 pm |
Thanks for taking the time to read my post. I thought you might like three other post along the same lines. They are on my other blog halcyonpassages.wordpress.com which is the ongoing story of our sailboat cruising from Baja back to Florida with two dogs. The post are Hole in the Boat, First Sail/Burial at Sea and Ghost. I will visit your site today. Mike
December 31, 2011 at 10:27 am |
Reblogged this on Basil Wheel.
December 31, 2011 at 5:39 pm |
No problem, thanks