Dogs Never Die-Don DeForge, VMD Silver Sands Veterinary 31May2016

       Don DeForge, VMD~~~Silver Sands Veterinary Center~~~31May2016

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Dogs Never Die….. 

They Just Go To Sleep

The story below is listed as anonymous.  It is not my words but has been sent to me to report in my Blog: SilverSandsVeterinary.blogspot.com

Please enjoy it.  Don’t worry if a tear comes into the corner of your eye…I had the same tear when I read it the first time.  Take care of your older pets.  They provide unconditional love and ask ONLY for food, water, and a small return of the love that they provide to you without any strings attached. 

Don DeForge, VMD

Some of you, think they have recently lost a dog to “death”! I don’t really understand this. I’ve had no desire to explain, but won’t be around forever and must send my thoughts.

Dogs never die! They don’t know how to. They get tired, and very old, and their bones hurt. Of course they don’t die. If they did they would not want to always go for a walk, even long after their old bones say:” No, no, not a good idea. Let’s not go for a walk.” Nope, dogs always want to go for a walk. They might get one step before their aging tendons collapse them into a heap on the floor, but that’s what dogs are....they walk and walk.

It’s not that they dislike your company. On the contrary, a walk with you is all there is.  Cat poop, another dog’s mark, a rotting chicken bone (exultation), and you! That’s what makes their world perfect, and in a perfect world death has no place.

However, dogs get very very sleepy. That’s the thing, you see. They don’t teach you that at the fancy university where they explain about quarks, gluons [tiny particles called quarks and gluons are the building blocks for larger particles such as protons and neutrons, which in turn form atoms]. and Keynesian economics. They know so much they forget that dogs never die! It’s a shame, really. Dogs have so much to offer and people just talk a lot.

When you think your dog has died, it has just fallen asleep in your heart. And by the way, it is wagging its tail madly……. that’s why your chest hurts so much and you cry all the time. Who would not cry with a happy dog wagging its tail in their chest? Ouch! Wap wap wap wap wap……that hurts. But they only wag when they wake up. That’s when they say: “Thanks Boss! Thanks for a warm place to sleep and always next to your heart, the best place.”

When they first fall asleep, they wake up all the time, and that’s why, of course, you cry all the time…..wap, wap, wap. After a while they sleep more!

You take your dog for walk……it’s a day full of adventure in an hour. Then you come home and it’s a week …….. really…….before the dog gets another walk. No WONDER they love walks.

Anyway, like I was saying, they fall asleep in your heart, and when they wake up, they wag their tail. After a few dog years, they sleep for longer naps, and you would too.

They were a GOOD DOG all their life, and you both know it. It gets tiring being a good dog all the time, particularly when you get old and your bones hurt and you fall on your face and don’t want to go outside to pee when it is raining but do anyway, because you are a good dog. So understand, after they have been sleeping in your heart, they will sleep longer and longer.

But don’t get fooled. They are not “dead.” There’s no such thing, really.

They are sleeping in your heart, and they will wake up, usually when you’re not expecting it. It’s just who they are.

I feel sorry for people who don’t have dogs sleeping in their heart. You’ve missed so much!

Special Comment from Dr. DeForge: I do not know the author of this beautiful story.  If you are the author or know the author E-Mail me at DonDeForge100@gmail.com