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Dog Poems, Sayings and Quotes.
A Living Love
If you ever love an animal, there are three days in your life you will always remember . . .
The first is a day, blessed with happiness, when you bring home your young new friend. You may have spent weeks deciding on a breed. You may have asked numerous opinions of many vets, or done long research in finding a breeder. Or, perhaps in a fleeting moment, you may have just chosen that silly looking mutt in a shelter -- simply because something in its eyes reached your heart. But when you bring that chosen pet home, and watch it explore, and claim its special place in your hall or front room -- and when you feel it brush against you for the first time -- it instills a feeling of pure love you will carry with you through the many years to come.
The second day will occur eight or nine or ten years later. It will be a day like any other. Routine and unexceptional. But, for a surprising instant, you will look at your longtime friend and see age where you once saw youth. You will see slow deliberate steps where you once saw energy. And you will see sleep when you once saw activity. So you will begin to adjust your friend's diet -- and you may add a pill or two to her food. And you may feel a growing fear deep within yourself, which bodes of a coming emptiness. And you will feel this uneasy feeling, on and off, until the third day finally arrives.
And on this day -- if your friend and whatever higher being you believe in have not decided for you, then you will be faced with making a decision of your own -- on behalf of your lifelong friend, and with the guidance of your own deepest Spirit. But whichever way your friend eventually leaves you -- you will feel as long as a single star in the dark night.
If you are wise, you will let the tears flow as freely and as often as they must. And if you are typical, you will find that not many in your circle of family or friends will be able to understand your grief, or comfort you.
But if you are true to the love of the pet you cherished through the many joy-filled years, you may find that a soul -- a bit smaller in size than your own -- seems to walk with you, at times, during the lonely days to come.
And at moments when you least expect anything out of the ordinary to happen, you may feel something brush against your leg -- very very lightly.
And looking down at the place where your dear, perhaps dearest, friend used to lie -- you will remember those three significant days. The memory will most likely to be painful, and leave an ache in your heart--
- As time passes the ache will come and go as if it has a life of its own. You will both reject it and it, and it may confuse you. If you reject it, it will depress you. If you embrace it, it will deepen you. Either way, it will still be an ache.
But there will be, I assure you, a fourth day when -- along with the memory of your pet -- and piercing through the heaviness in your heart -- there will come a realization that belongs only to you. It will be as unique and strong as our relationship with each animal we have loved, and lost. This realization takes the form of a Living Love -- like the heavenly scent of a rose that remains after the petals have wilted, this Love will remain and grow -- and be there for us to remember. It is a love we have earned. It is the legacy our pets leave us when they go. And it is a gift we may keep with us as long as we live. It is a Love which is ours alone. And until we ourselves leave, perhaps to join our Beloved Pets -- it is a Love we will always possess.
~~by Martin Scot Kosins
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That was a nice read. With losing my Kelly dog recently, it makes it difficult not to cry.
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Here are two that were posted in response to my memorial thread for Kelly Kay on PBC.
Three score and ten are given to man,
But ours is a much briefer span.
So, though I give you all my heart,
The time will come when we must part.
But all around you, you will see,
Creatures that speak to you of me;
A tired horse, a hunted thing,
A sparrow with a broken wing ...
Pity - and help (I know you will)
And somehow, I will be with you still;
And I shall know, although I'm gone,
The love I gave you lingers on.
--- (Author unknown) ---
and this one, from Purple;
Request From Rainbow Bridge
by Constance Jenkins
Weep not for me though I am gone
Into that gentle night.
Grieve if you will, but not for long
Upon my soul's sweet flight.
I am at peace, my soul's at rest
There is no need for tears.
For with your love I was so blessed
For all those many years.
There is no pain, I suffer not,
The fear now all is gone.
Put now these things out of your thoughts,
In your memory I live on.
Remember not my fight for breath
Remember not the strife.
Please do not dwell upon my death,
But celebrate my life.
Dobs4ever (07-18-2010)
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megschristina, those words are beautiful. I have just recently begun to appreciate poetry, especially when it relates to animlas. Thank you for your post.
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Dog Quotes
- "Life is like a dog sled team. If you ain't the lead dog, the scenery never changes." - Lewis Grizzard
- "You think dogs will not be in heaven? I tell you, they will be there long before any of us." - Robert Louis Stevenson
- "Scratch a dog and you'll find a permanent job." - Franklin P Jones
- "The disposition of noble dogs is to be gentle with people they know and the opposite with those they don't know...How, then, can the dog be anything other than a lover of learning since it defines what's its own and what's alien." - Plato
- "Politics are not my concern... they impressed me as a dog's life without a dog's decencies." - Rudyard Kipling
- "If you eliminate smoking and gambling, you will be amazed to find that almost all an Englishman's pleasures can be, and mostly are, shared by his dog." - George Bernard Shaw
- "No man can be condemned for owning a dog. As long as he has a dog, he has a friend; and the poorer he gets, the better friend he has." - Will Rogers
- "America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags it's tail it knocks over a chair." - Arnold Toynbee
- "If you eliminate smoking and gambling, you will be amazed to find that almost all an Englishman's pleasures can be, and mostly are, shared by his dog." - George Bernard Shaw
- "No man can be condemned for owning a dog. As long as he has a dog, he has a friend; and the poorer he gets, the better friend he has." - Will Rogers
- "America is a large friendly dog in a small room. Every time it wags it's tail it knocks over a chair." - Arnold Toynbee
Dobs4ever (07-18-2010)
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Dog Proverbs
- "The dog's kennel is not the place to keep a sausage." - Danish Proverb
- "To live long, eat like a cat, drink like a dog." - German Proverb
- "Three things it is best to avoid: a strange dog, a flood, and a man who thinks he is wise." - Welsh Proverb
- "The dog wags his tail, not for you, but for your bread." - Portuguese Proverb
- "The barking of a dog does not disturb the man on a camel." - Egyptian Proverb
- "Children aren't dogs; adults aren't gods." - Haitian Proverb
- "Beware of a silent dog and still water." - Latin Proverb
- "The greater love is a mother's; then comes a dog's; then a sweetheart's." - Polish Proverb
- "One dog barks at something, the rest bark at him." - Chinese Proverb
- "Do not respond to a barking dog." - Moroccan Jewish saying
- "Only mad dogs and Englishmen go out in the noonday sun." - Indian Proverb
- "Those who sleep with dogs will rise with fleas." - Italian Proverb
- "Show a dog a finger, and he wants the whole hand." - Yiddish Proverb
- "If you are a host to your guest, be a host to his dog also." - Russian Proverb
- "A house without either a cat or a dog is the house of a scoundrel." - Portuguese Proverb
- "An honest man is not the worse because a dog barks at him." - Danish Proverb
- "Every dog is allowed one bite." - US Proverb
- "A good dog deserves a good bone." - US Proverb
- "If you stop every time a dog barks, your road will never end." - Saudi Arabian Proverb
- Dog does not eat dog. - Proverb
- Give a dog a bad name and hang him. - Proverb
- Why keep a dog and bark yourself? - Proverb
Dobs4ever (07-18-2010)
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My favorite dog quote-
"If a dog will not come to you after having looked you in the eye, you should go home and examine your conscience." - Woodrow Wilson
Dobs4ever (07-18-2010)
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Perfect!!!!!
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When I Got My New Dog
- I asked for strength that I might rear her perfectly;
I was given weakness that I might feed her more treats.
I asked for good health that I might rest easy;
I was given a "special needs" dog that I might know nurturing.
I asked for an obedient dog that I might feel proud;
I was given stubbornness that I might feel humble.
I asked for compliance that I might feel masterful;
I was given a clown that I might laugh.
I asked for a companion that I might not feel lonely;
I was given a best friend that I would feel loved.
I got nothing I asked for,
But everything that I needed.
Unknown
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"Money may buy you a fine dog, but only love can make it wag its tail" - Kinky Friedman
"My goal in life is to be as good as my dog thinks I am" - Anonymous
"A door is what a dog is perpetually on the wrong side of" - Ogden Nash
"Dogs are not our whole life, but they make our lives whole" - Roger Caras
"The most affectionate creature in the world is a wet dog" - Ambrose Pierce
I have a whole bunch of different dog quotes on the backs of my business cards.
Dobs4ever (07-18-2010)
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