Some of you, particularly those who think they have
recently lost a dog to “death”, don’t really understand this. I’ve had no
desire to explain, but I won’t be around forever and must for those out there
to finally understand.
Dogs never die. They don’t know how too. They get
tired, 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 do. They walk.
You see, a walk with you is all there is. A walk with
their best friend and the symphony of odor that the world is. Cat poop, another
dog’s mark, a rotting chicken bone and you. That is what makes their world
perfect and in a perfect world death as no place.
Dogs just get very, very sleepy. That is the thing you
see. The don’t teach you that at the fancy university where they explain about
quarks and economics. They know so much there that they forget that dogs never
die. It is a shame really. Dogs have so much to offer and people just talk too
much.
When you think your dog has died, it has really just
fallen asleep in the world and now lives in your heart. And by the way, it is
wagging its tail madly, you see, and that is 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
because they are so happy to be so close to you.
Whenever they wake up in your heart they wag their
tail. After a few dog years, they sleep for longer periods of time and you will
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 they do because they are a good dog. So understand that after they
have been sleeping in your heart, they will sleep longer and longer.
But don’t get fooled. They are not “dead”. There is no
such thing, really. They are sleeping in your heart and when they wake up,
usually when you are not expecting it. It is just who they are.
I feel sorry for people who don’t have dogs sleeping
in their heart. They miss so much. Excuse me, I have to go cry now.
(Ernest
Montague)
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