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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 God 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 lonely 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 lay — 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 embrace 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
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 God 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 lonely 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 lay — 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 embrace 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
ROTTWEILER
NURSERY
| LETTING GO IS ALWAYS EXTREMELY HARD, BUT KNOWING THAT OUR BABIES WENT TO SUCH WONDERFUL HOMES MAKES IT A LITTLE EASIER. GOOD LUCK TO ALL |
CORA & HANZ ARE THE PROUD NEW PARENTS OF 6 MALES & 3 FEMALES PUPS ARE ALL SPOKEN FOR PLEASE SEE THEIR GOING HOME PICS BELOW LAST LITTER FOR 2008 STAY TUNED TO SEE PLANNED BREEDINGS FOR 2009 |
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| YOU CAN WATCH PREVIOUS LITTERS GROW BY CLICKING ON THE LITTERS ABOVE |
JUNIOR GOING TO ARIZONA TO MY BROTHER
APOLLO WITH TIM
GROVER WITH CONRAD
REAGAN GOING TO TN. TO THE BLAIRS
WESSON WITH BECKY & CHRIS
MIA WITH THE GRETZON'S
DEBO WITH RON
DOZER WITH THE KETUROSKEY'S
SHYLA WITH THE KEARN'S
