Apr
6
2017
I Can’t Imagine A LIfe Without Animals
Author: siggyI can’t imagine a life without animals. Each dog (I have three) and even my seven cats enrich my life. They give me more reasons to get up and greet them each day. Each pet has their own personality. Of course, I have favorites and so what?! Everyone has friends and certain friends who are favorites. Tilla is the dog I never expected. I lost the first dog I ever raised from a pup, Daisy, who died from cancer and then a golden retriever came our way.
Our one male dog, Pax, impregnated her before we could get her fixed and seven pups came our way, most of them born on our bed. We sold four (one died) and I did not have the heart to tell my wife to separate the last two, which we kept. One male, Tilla, and a female Coco both who I have learned to love dearly. They certainly complicate our lives but we had the means to build a fence around part of out property.
We did have one problem: Tilla the most athletic of our four dogs could jump the fence so a year later we even built the fence higher now it was too high for him to make it over. As time went by, I developed a close relationship with Tilla. Maybe just by giving him belly rubs whenever he wanted them. Wouldn’t that be something if we can make friends with other humans by just giving them belly rubs?! Anyway, the human equivalent. Whatever that might be?
Tags: belly rubs, Coco, Tilla
