02/04/2025
Where can I find the perfect pup!?!
🤷🏻♀️Your guess is as good as mine. I don’t know. After so many conversations lately, I want to touch base on this. Some people want blue eyes, a white tip tail, one that will play fetch, one that wants to wear clothes, one that will sit in the corner, one that has half a white face and half a black face, one that is automatically potty trained, one that likes her crate, one that wants to stay outside. While all these things are fine to want, I often refer my dogs back to people. Are our kids perfect? Do they do exactly what we want? Do they look like we always imagined? What if I bought a dog only because they had a pink nose but when they turned 2, it started turning black? What if my dog had accidents because they only want more attention and have no other way of communicating that? Animals are a lot like humans. We have to learn their wants and needs. If for some reason, they don’t fit our “perfect” dog criteria, do we just give up and give them away? Would we do that if we wanted a blonde haired child and it turned brown when they turned 8? Just like with humans, we have to work at our relationships. Like the old saying, the grass is green…where you water it?!?
Dogs are only ours for a short time because they leave such a huge impact on our lives. Don’t waste their lives harping on the things they could do better at. Thank goodness God doesn’t judge us as strictly. 🩷