“It’s just a dog.”
I have experienced a lot of love and hurt throughout my life.
But one example of a great love that I have will always be my unconditional love for my dogs.
I grew up in the company of dogs. Even in my earliest memories, dogs are ever present.
Others may say “it’s just a dog”, but for me – it was never only a dog, because they were family.
If our dogs got critically sick or have grown weak from old age, to the point that we can’t do anything to save them anymore, and our family is forced to consider our options with moving forward and acceptance, it always crushes me, and you never get used to it.
In the end, we agree that it’s be better for them to leave the world soon, and be released from their suffering. We’d just wait for their time to cross the rainbow bridge and cherish them till’ the end.
But when that time inevitably does come – we’re just left clinging to all the memories we had with them for the past months, years, or however long, and definitely, it still hurts.
Some may never understand why we act like this, why we grieve and mourn for the loss of a dog, because for us, they’re family. They always have been.
They may be physically different in form, but an unconditional and mutual love is always shared.
A dog is our companion:
A companion that will always guard us.
A companion that will always greet us.
A companion that we can always cuddle.
A companion that will never betray us.
A companion that we can celebrate everything with.
A companion that will sit or sleep beside us when we’re feeling down.
A companion that will accept everything we give them.
A companion that will not judge us.
A companion that will give us happiness.
A companion that will love us until their last breath.
That’s a dog for us.
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