Kiz_Paws Bag Of Trix

Oh, thank you so much, Kiz Paw's!! I was just checking if there were new entries when I saw yours!! Thank you very very much! That is a very sweet poem and the idea is extremely thoughtful of you! THANK YOU.

I hope you know what a loving thing that was on your part, the poem for Sweets on the passing of Mabrouck.

Sincereky,
Mabrouck's brother-in-law

that was absolutely beautiful kizzo...it made me wanna cry...and what a perfect find of a photo...i love my dog...except for when she poops in house..well, i still love her, but just a tad less...

(Sweets, I was sorry to hear about your dog passing, I know how hard that is )

A really lovely poem kiz!

A very sweet poem, we've all shared in that loss at some point, very hard. Sorry to hear about your dog Sweets. Maybe there is a doggie heaven, you never know.

You are welcome, Sweets, my pleasure. And jon1jt, don't even doubt it -- when I die, that is where I want to go!

Awh, it's sad such a pretty poem and beautiful dog had to be the result of such a tragedy. Go to Walmart and buy the 2008 calendar with the three black labs on the front. I am.

First I share in the sentiment. A dog is like a family member, one that we know will only live to a dozen years or so. But let me just quibble a little with the ending of Kizzo's poem.

And though your beloved pet
has gone to sleep for now
his little life enriched your own
and that is what really counts.

Yes it's true they have enriched our life. But Sweets should also be most satisfied that she enriched her dog's life. Her dog lived fourteen great years, was loved and treated well and probably lived as good a life as possible. That is all Sweets could have done. She could not have done any more. That is an equal exchange of love. And the satisfaction that one did all that one could do is what really counts.

Virge, so what you're saying is that love is, above all, a shared, reciprocated enterprise, one that participates in the highest form of love, what I see as a 'complex of love' between canine and human. I like that.

Yes it's true they have enriched our life. But Sweets should also be most satisfied that she enriched her dog's life. Her dog lived fourteen great years, was loved and treated well and probably lived as good a life as possible. That is all Sweets could have done. She could not have done any more. That is an equal exchange of love. And the satisfaction that one did all that one could do is what really counts.

Fair enough, Virgil. Spoken like a true dog owner/lover

Yes of course I have enriched his life, I have learnt with him what unconditional love meant and I have done my best to give this kind of love to him. I would have done anything for him, and it was reciprocal. I've been very attached to him because I love my dogs as brothers and more, but also because I have been quite asocial for many years and they were the only persons who did not judge me, and with whom I could be myself. I just feel good among dogs. I feel better.

Yes Jon, it is reciprical. If it weren't the dog would be out in the streets scavenging for food.