About Dogs

Oh yeh, you guessed it, I am a dog person. And so much time have I spent thinking about different species, and how they differ from humans.
What attributes, skills or personality traits do we share with other creatures.

Maybe we should mirror some species, or aspire to be more like some?
Ants always fascinated me as well, I mean the raw strength these little guys posses, even each of those little buggers has a specific job they fulfill…

But dogs, dogs have something I value dearly.

Loyalty

Whether it is friendship, relationship, work, I usually hold Loyalty in the highest regard. And maybe this is why I enjoy the company of dogs that much.
My dog, Hayley, adores me. She shares my burdens, my pain, and my happiness. Sometimes I swear I have a feeling even my own mother doesn’t love me as much as she does.

I have a friend or two who I do not need to speak to, in order for them to understand me, my thoughts, my problems, or my happiness. That is something that scares and amazes me, how sometimes, with someone, we can say so little, but understand so much. And this can happen sometimes, even easier, with different species.

What did we do to deserve dogs?

I mean spell dog backward. What do you get?

I understand to a point — not enjoying the company of animals. Getting mud or hair on your perfect new jeans. It sucks. But you have people (I don’t like to be judgemental, but this is ridiculous) who hate, or have an irrational fear of dogs.
What the absolute heck?

I would like to get input on the above, even if it is justified as in being attacked by a dog, I still think there are no bad dogs, only bad owners.

I’ve read so many stories about dogs and their owners, the sad ones, and the happy ones. I don’t know why, but those stories touch the deepest part of my being.

A fraction of our life we spend with our most trusty companion, and we are their whole world. I understand we lose people, but this is random, and you could have a happy ending. But if you choose to have a man’s best friend, you know how it ends. How unfair is that, that I have to live my life without someone I loved and was loved by so dearly and so purely.

There are many terrible things in this world, and this would be the first one I wished was undone.