If you can get going without pep pills,
If you can always be cheerful, ignoring aches and pains,
If you can resist complaining and boring people with your troubles,
If you can eat the same food every day and be grateful for it,
If you can understand when your loved ones are too busy to give you any time,
If you can take criticism and blame without resentment,
If you can resist treating a rich friend better than a poor friend,
If you can conquer tension without medical help,
If you can relax without liquor,
If you can sleep without the aid of drugs,
...Then You Are Probably The Family Dog!
And you thought I was going to get all spiritual.
Thanks to Doug.
Amen- that is spiritual. We can all learn from our dogs.
ReplyDeleteWonderful!!! We can learn from the simple love and trust of that family dog.
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Yeah, I did! But of course you were getting all spiritual, just in a doggy and humorous way. Love the photo.
ReplyDeleteThis is definitely dog spirituality. Almost all of these apply to cats, except for the complaining part, which cats feel the need to do once in a while, and the fact that when cats want attention, they want it now. Other than that, they treat rich and poor alike (mine does, anyway) and definitely don't need drugs to get mellow or energetic.
Hooray for the four-legged folk.
Y'know, I got kicked out of my Sunday School class as a child because they asked us to draw a picture of God (again!) and I drew a dog. Clearly, I was on to something! :)
ReplyDeleteMy dog is my hero.
ReplyDeleteAnd I was feeling so high-minded about halfway through (except for the caffeine thing!).
ReplyDeleteLovely picture (but he does need some dieting ;=)
ReplyDeleteJasper is not shy about letting me know when he doesn't get enough attention...
ReplyDeleteSCG, what is "dog" spelled backwards? Says it all.
ReplyDeleteDoxy, I know a woman who had a baby a few months ago, and her dogs have been peeing and pooing in the wrong places since the birth of the baby. Is that what you mean?
Jasper doesn't do that. He just starts chewing on the couch pillows I haven't finished paying for yet, or he bites my feet.
ReplyDeleteHe's not subtle, that one...
If we show too much attention to Abraham (aka Knucklehead), Boris (aka Butthead) pees on our bed! First vindictive dog we've had.
ReplyDeleteDiana is good. She had only one bad accident, and that was our doing, because we fed her too much greasy table food. She pooped, and it was not a nice dry turd, but several plops. We had to get the rug cleaners in.
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