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06-08-2007, 06:19 PM | #1 |
ZIGGY & MUGSY'S MOM Donating Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Denton, TX
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| Grow Old With Me This is for us older YTers but may also apply to youngsters one of these days. ' Growing old With Dogs ' When I am old I will wear soft gray sweatshirts and a bandana over my silver hair and I will spend my social security checks on wine and my dogs. I will sit in my house on my well-worn chair and listen to my dogs' breathing. I will sneak out in the middle of a warm summer night and take my dogs for a run, if my old bones will allow... When people come to call, I will smile and nod as I show them my dogs and talk of them and about them the ones so beloved of the past and the ones so beloved of today I will still work hard cleaning after them, mopping and feeding them and whispering their names in a soft loving way. I will wear the gleaming sweat on my throat, like a jewel and I will be an embarrassment to all especially my family who have not yet found the peace in being free to have dogs as your best friends These friends who always wait, at any hour, for your footfall and eagerly jump to their feet out of a sound sleep, to greet you as if you are a God. With warm eyes full of adoring love and hope that you will always stay, I'll hug their big strong necks I'll kiss their dear sweet heads and whisper in their very special company I look in the Mirror and see I am getting old this is the kind of person I am and have always been. Loving dogs is easy, they are part of me. Please accept me for who I am. My dogs appreciate my presence in their lives they love my presence in their lives When I am old this will be important to me you will understand when you are old if you have dogs to love too. ~Author Unknown~
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06-08-2007, 06:23 PM | #2 |
Blessed by Otis & Ollie Donating Member Join Date: Jan 2006 Location: Plainfield, Indiana
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| That's beautiful!! I'm going to print it out. It says it all!!!!
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06-08-2007, 07:48 PM | #3 |
Donating YT 30K Club Member | Loved it!! So true
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06-08-2007, 08:19 PM | #4 |
Donating Yorkie Yakker Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Orange County, California
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| Thank you so much for posting this; the words are so beautiful, they made me cry. I am making a copy so that I can always have it to remind me.... my dogs, my precious little furry friends, will always be with me, long after they are gone...... |
06-09-2007, 12:50 AM | #5 |
YT 3000 Club Member Join Date: Dec 2006 Location: California
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| That is so beautiful! I love it...even though I'm a "youngster"
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06-09-2007, 01:41 AM | #6 |
Donating YT 1000 Club Member Join Date: Feb 2006 Location: Northern New York
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| Such beautiful words. Pity the person who's never shared the love and companionship of a dog.
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06-09-2007, 10:38 AM | #7 |
ZIGGY & MUGSY'S MOM Donating Member Join Date: Dec 2005 Location: Denton, TX
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| I'm so glad you all enjoyed it...it made me cry too. I can't imagine life without a dog. I miss the ones who have gone on before me but I know it's only til we meet again. RIP Koko and Willie. Karen(Ziggy's Mom)
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