| WHAT’S A DOG? Well, let’s see; a dog is a lot of things: - It has 4 legs, a tail, usually a warm soft tongue, usually a cold nose and is a container for the most unconditional
love and pleasure you will over come across!
- A dog is a Friend. But it also might be:
- Companion, sometimes a constant companion for healthy people, the elderly and the sick and lonely who need company but have none.
- a Pack Animal, meaning it needs a pack to be happy.
Usually that’s you, the owner.
- An animal, meaning it has instincts, can learn and to a degree is sentient.
- A protector; many will come to the aid of their owners if threatened.
- A mind reader; it can often tell from your actions what you’re going to do and how you
feel, although you haven’t purposely let the dog know it.
- A solder, tracker and does so happily.
- A lifesaver at beaches, in wars, building disasters, storm disasters, all sorts of disasters where they sniff out everything from drugs to lost people to dead people and even criminals, all thanks to their incredible sense of smell.
- A clairvoyant, to warn an epileptic victim of impending siezures, and an indicator of many other diseases people need to know as soon as possible are about to hit them. These activities are probably based on chemical changes and odors within the body of the victim the dog watches over.
- A predictor of earth quakes, tsunami, storms and other imminent disasters
before they are known to be coming.
- A nurse who can travel to hospitals and other places sick and dying people live, to bring them each pleasure at its touch, or wag of the tail, or lick of the back of the hand. Their therapeutic values are well known and often used but in short supply of the humans needed to do this valuable work.
- A friend who
will greet you when you are despondent, spend time with you, and let you know by its gentle touch that you’re loved, no matter how bad things get.
- A loyal friend and companion who will never leave you willingly and who wants nothing in return but to be loved and cared for by you.
- A friend who will always be there to greet you when you return
home after a hard day’s work.
- Anxious to learn every way possible it can please you.
- A giver of unconditional love, loving you even after you have been mean to them or punished them unfairly or done some other action against them.
- A watchdog, letting you know when
someone is at the door, even before the bell rings.
- What they are not is human, but still they often become a very important member of a family, nearly as important as any other member.
These and many other traits are the possibilities almost any dog can posses. And some of us humans have the nerve to tie them to the end of a chain and
forget about them? To leave them to starve and suffer in the weather, lonely and with no future, no possibility of the good things that could be? Don’t let that happen to any animal. Report cruelty wherever and whenever you find it. Become a supporter for our defenseless friends. They would be much better off in a shelter where they might be recoverable as a companion pet and adopted by some loving family who could make their miserable prior existence nothing but a distant
memory. Help fight animal abuse wherever it’s found. | |
