My stinky dogs

I do not have a pet at home right now, but I remember I grew up in the house, which has a dog in the compound almost all the time. Of course, my parents always had a puppy to replace the one who had already passed on. Total about five dogs have been part of our family. When I was young, whenever we did not have a dog at home, I felt very insecure like having a hole in my heart or missing a part in the family.

Many of us know that dogs are man’s best friends and I would not deny that. Now I realized that ‘How could I not learn and practice what I have noticed about the common treat of my dogs?’

I remember every morning, before I stepped out of the house whether to school or work, I would inform my mum yet I never bid farewell to the pet (my dog of course, not the rats, lizards, ants, fish…) even s/he accompanied me to the gate of the house. S/he would watch me to walk till the end of the street then s/he would go back to the house. Please do not be mistaken, my dad found it already headache to motivate me to study hard when I was young needless to say, to send the dog to a training school. So all my dogs were uneducated too. Worse still, I am educated and yet I did not know on how to give love and communicate with my dogs in their language/way.

No matter how late I came home, my youngest sibling (my dog) would run to the gate to welcome me by his/her overly friendly behavior, which I thought the kisses and hugs that they gave actually dirty my clothes with unpleasant smell. And I have forgotten that I was ugly, stinky, negative and unappreciative too. In side my heart, I knew that s/he wanted so much attention from me. In contrast, I refused to pay them the attention as I felt the division between us with my ego mind.

I would not say my ‘human’ family was treating our adopted child (our dogs) nicely, we gave them left over food as their dinner, cold floor and wet grass in the compound as their home, cars as shelter when they sleep, rain water as their liquid in take, and most importantly, we treated all our dogs like an invisible creature following us around the house. I hardly look at them in their eyes, stroke them as my good friend and appreciate them as my good company and security guard.

Little things that I failed to see in all my dogs were more ready to love offered and outstretch of kindness even they were away from their unknown family. They accepted gifts and healed from experience easily and effortlessly. They HAVE GREAT COURAGE WITH ABILITY TO DROP FEAR, and open their heart to ACCPET of what it is at PRESENT.

Though all of my dogs have already moved to North (heaven) for long. This is just a little thing that I could do now. Thank you for all the learning and courage that I have gained from all of you.

Thank you.