11/01/2022
❤🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾🐾❤Occasionally, people tell me, "Oh, it's only a dog," or... "Well, that's a lot of money for just a dog."
They see the travel distance, the time spent and spending of the money for just a dog, and they don't understand.
Hour after hour passes, and my only company is just a dog. (And in those hours my heart is full, my mind is calm, my lap is warm, and my time passes without worry.)
Some of my most proud moments were with only a dog, and also some of my saddest moments came only with a dog. (I look back and I can think of all of those moments, with so many dogs, and in a flash I want to cry and to smile)
However, in those dark days, it was the gentle touch of only a dog that made me strong and motivated to keep going. (In some dark days, getting up to something that was just happy I woke up.)
Only a dog brings me pure friendship, trust, and perfect happiness.
Only a dog brings compassion and patience, which makes me a better person.
Only with a dog will get up early, take long walks, and look forward to the future.
For people like me, it is not "just a dog."
My dog is an embodiment of all the hopes and dreams for the future, many a happy memory from the past, and the pure joy for the present.'
For the people that say "It's just a dog" have only had 'just a dog and none of the special connection you can feel with another living creature.
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