While looking through the TV guide last week to find the exact date I was watching ‘The Ninth Gate’ on cable, I came across the cardboard advertisement showing this cute picture of a short-haired Shih Tzu dog with the cutest button eyes ever. Below this picture is the following poem:
You look at me with eyes of love;
You never hold a grudge…
You think I’m far too wonderful
To criticize or judge
I love this poem, which to me does represent what a good boy any dog with the look of devotion could do to melt my heart. I love him! If I had a cute dog like him, I’d shower him with lots of hugs and kisses and spoil him with lots of cute bows in his hair and doggy treats, too. I would be very emotionally attached and treat this other life form as one of the family.
During a phone conversation around 12:40PM this afternoon, I had told the caller, ‘I wish I could release all dogs [from their masters]. In my mind, I wanted to express to the caller (but couldn’t) that dogs do not always need to serve their masters. Dogs are meant to roam around freely in the wild as their love and affection for their owners. In return, the caretakers of dogs (or any pets) should be reciprocating.
A ‘good dog’ should not be told what to do on command by their alpha leaders and be punished for not behaving within normal parameters. Cruelty to dogs or ultimate death should not result for the dog raised without love either. Dogs as with all animals have intelligence and other heightened senses that some of us humans have not fully developed.
Some animals seem to exhibit human behavior, such as emotions of happiness when rewarded with love and sadness with the loss of a loved one. We must learn how to better communicate with other life forms in their language and to increase our understanding of why some animals capture our hearts better than others for domesticated purposes, such as food or companionship.
Just like the two-dimensional photo of this dog, the eyes that light up and glisten is a sign of life and love. The eyes that tend to squint are dull, listless and otherwise creepy with redness may indicate something terribly wrong with the bio-unit. So, peer into the eyes and determine whether the feeling is warm and fuzzy or cold and clammy. The eyes are indeed the way to the soul, if any.
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