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Wheaten Tributes |
"Walk With An Old Dog"
by Gayl Jokiel, Wheaten Blazoner, SCWTCGSL
Because you will not be forever,
Hope against time though I may,
I paint your picture in my memory,
Eyes blue with age, muzzle gone gray.
Because you walked with me in Springtime,
Puppy-clumsy, running free.
As you grew, we grew together-
You became a part of me.
Because you shared with me my sorrows,
Not understanding- simply there.
Often spurring me to laughter--
My friend, you know how much I care
.
Because the years have slowed your fleetness,
Though your spirit still is strong.
I promise I will take more time now,
So that you can go along.
Because you do not fear the future
,Living only in the now,
I draw strength from your example-
Yet time keeps slipping by somehow
.
Because the day will soon be coming
When I will no longer see
You rise to greet me-but in memory
You will always walk with me
.
THE RAINBOW BRIDGE
Just this side of heaven is a place called Rainbow Bridge. When an animal dies that has been especially close to someone here, that pet goes to Rainbow Bridge. There are meadows and hills for all of our special friends so they can run and play together. There is plenty of food, water and sunshine, and our friends are warm and comfortable.
All the animals who had been ill and old are restored to health and vigor; those who were hurt or maimed are made whole and strong again, just as we remember them in our dreams of days and times gone by. The animals are happy and content, except for one small thing; they each miss someone very special to them, who had to be left behind.
They all run and play together, but the day comes when one suddenly stops and looks into the distance. His bright eyes are intent, his eager body quivers. Suddenly he begins to run from the group, flying over the green grass, his legs carrying him faster and faster.
You have been spotted, and when you and your special friend finally meet, you cling together in joyous reunion, never to be parted again. The happy kisses rain upon your face; your hands again caress the beloved head, and you look once more into the trusting eyes of your pet, so long gone from your life but never absent from your heart. Then you cross Rainbow Bridge together....
Author unknown...
Roses in November
Tale Waggers
I look out my window and realize that the bleak, gray November weather is here again. An early snow blankets the yard. Still, in the midst of the bleak gray and white landscape, I catch a glimpse of bright color. A rose is still blooming. It isn't the fanciest rose. It doesn't have the most lavish scent. The blooms aren't lush and full.
Yet this is the first rose to bloom in the spring and the last to surrender to winter - blooming in the snow long past frost. This, I think to myself, is what old dogs are like.
DO TREES GET IN THE WAY?
Contributed by Susan Saulvester-Author Unknown
Sometimes the forest grows up too thick, Sometimes we get lost in the fog.
We forget that our primary purpose at shows
Is to have a good time with our dog.
We get so involved in heeling and stays,
Teaching proper response to each call.
We forget that instead of retrieve on the flat
They'd rather be chasing a ball.
We devote every effort to grooming their coat
Till it looks like a soft mohair rug.
It's aligned and it's puffed when the dog underneath would prefer a grand hair mussing hug.
Our lives become busy, the club work complex, With letters and meetings and talks.
No time for just sitting out under a tree
Or taking those long Springtime walks.
It's true that our dogs get the time and the care
That dogs not so show worthy might miss,
But is it time in the back of a van in a crate
When they'd rather your lap and a kiss?
So don't let the forest or fog or the glory
Determine what is your dog's fate.....
Take a walk in the clouds, give a hug. throw a stick, before you find out it's too late.