Spare thoughts for Nanook please (update page 4)

[LuvGold00]

Thinking of you Nanook

[Glacier]

Sending many good thoughts that you get more good time with your special boy.

[anna_66]

I received this in my email today from Michelle (captain) and it reminded me of you right now so I wanted to share it with you too.

I AM YOUR DOG

I am your dog, and I have a little something I'd like to whisper in your
ear. I know that you humans lead busy lives. Some have to work, some have
children to raise. It always seems like you are running here and there,
often much too fast, often never noticing the truly grand things in life.
Look down at me now, while you sit there at your computer. See the way my
dark brown eyes look at yours? They are slightly cloudy now. That comes
with age. The gray hairs are beginning to ring my soft muzzle.

You smile at me; I see love in your eyes. What do you see in mine? Do you
see a spirit? A soul inside, who loves you as no other could in the world?
A spirit that would forgive all trespasses of prior wrong doing for just a
simple moment of your time? That is all I ask. To slow down, if even for
a few minutes to be with me. So many times you have been saddened by the
words you read on that screen, of other of my kind, passing. Sometimes we
die young and oh so quickly, sometimes so suddenly it wrenches your heart
out of your throat. Sometimes, we age so slowly before your eyes that you
may not even seem to know until the very end, when we look at you with
grizzled muzzles and cataract clouded eyes. Still the love is always
there, even when we must take that long sleep, to run free in a distant
land.

I may not be here tomorrow; I may not be here next week. Someday you will
shed the water from your eyes that humans have when deep grief fills their
souls, and you will be angry at yourself that you did not have just "One
more day" with me. Because I love you so, your sorrow touches my spirit
and grieves me. We have NOW, together. So come, sit down here next to me
on the floor, and look deep into my eyes. What do you see? If you look
hard and deep enough we will talk, you and I, heart to heart. Come to me
not as "alpha" or as "trainer" or even "Mom or Dad," come to me as a
living soul and stroke my fur and let us look deep into one another's
eyes, and talk.

I may tell you something about the fun of chasing a tennis ball, or I may
tell you something profound about myself, or even life in general. You
decided to have me in your life because you wanted a soul to share such
things with. Someone very different from you, and here I am. I am a dog,
but I am alive. I feel emotion, I feel physical senses, and I can revel in
the differences of our spirits and souls. I do not think of you as a "Dog
on two feet" -- I know what you are. You are human, in all your
quirkiness, and I love you still.

Now, come sit with me, on the floor. Enter my world, and let time slow
down if only for 15 minutes. Look deep into my eyes, and whisper to my
ears. Speak with your heart, with your joy and I will know your true
self. We may not have tomorrow, and life is, oh, so very short.


(on behalf of canines everywhere)

Lots of hugs for you and your precious Nanook.

[pipersmom]

Anna, that is so sweet and beautiful.

Gentle Hugs to Nanook and his family.

[wolf_Q]

I just wanted to let you know I'm thinking of you and Nanook. He's lead a very long and wonderful life with you, I know whatever time he has left will be very special. {{Hugs}}

[Husky_mom]

ohh anna you just made me get a knot in my throat and teary eyes, its really beautiful.................

still with Nooks on out thoughts..........Hugs Sue

[Lobodeb]

Anna, that was beautiful. Thanks for sharing.