Pets and Friends

I didn't get to sit down and write last night because we had things to do and some shopping had to be done.  Some times life gets in the way of me talking about it.

I have a pair of amazing dogs.  One is a chi-weenie (half dachshund and half chihuahua), and the other a black and tan dachshund.  Both were rescue dogs one from the local humane society and the other from a friend who had a friend that left her at his house.  We have had them for about three and five years respectively.  During that time they have trained very well as to how they want things.

I say that half way tongue in cheek but you pet owners know exactly what I mean.  If they are used to doing something like riding to the post office for the mail, then they know when you start out the door to go there and insist on riding along.   Non-dog owners will say it is all a Pavlovian response to stimuli.  Pet owners know better.

There is a certain knowledge and aptitude that dogs and cats have that, at least I can't, cannot be explained.  Take for instance the cat in the nursing home that sits and lays on the bed of the terminally ill patients that die soon after.  Or the German Shepard in AK that led a state trouper to a burning house that the trooper could not locate.  Once the trooper found the house he was able to save the people inside.

Another case was just recently talked about on FB where a man was going downhill rapidly from complications of Alzheimer's.  He  was checked into the hospital and his chihuahua was sent to a foster home.  Both were refusing to eat and sliding fast.  His last wish was to have his dog brought to him.  When that happened both brightened up and started eating and regaining strength, physically improving.  Thank goodness there was an administrator who had the gumption to bend a rule!

As you may guess our puppies are more than pets.  They are friends.  Friends who are there for us. Friends who are content to be close to us.  Friends who know something is wrong but not exactly what.  Friends that give us comfort and joy and laughter and so much more.  I know this will be hard on them as well but we will make the best of it. Together. As friends.

Until next time.............