Such Short Little Lives Our Pets Have

A Dog Doesn't Care If You Are Rich Or Poor, Educated Of Illiterate, Clever Or Dull. Give Him Your Heart And He Will Give You His. It Was Really Quite Simple, And Yet We Humans, So Much Wiser And More Sophisticated, Have Always Had Trouble Figuring Out What Really Counts And What Does Not.

Only Then Did I See. Something Was Amiss With Patrick's Snap-on One Piece, Or "onesie" As We Manly Dads Like To Call It. His Chubby Thighs, I Now Realized, Were Squeezed Into The Armholes, Which Were So Tight They Must Have Been Cutting Off His Circulation. The Collared Neck Hung Between His Legs Like An Udder. Up Top, Patrick's Head Stuck Out Through The Unsnapped Crotch, And His Arms Were Lost Somewhere In The Billowing Pant Legs. It Was Quite A Look.

Such Short Little Lives Our Pets Have To Spend With Us, And They Spend Most Of It Waiting For Us To Come Home Each Day. It Is Amazing How Much Love And Laughter They Bring Into Our Lives And Even How Much Closer We Become With Each Other Because Of Them.

He Taught Us The Art Of Unqualified Love. How To Give It, How To Accept It. Where There Is That, Most Other Pieces Fall Into Place.

Dogs Are Great. Bad Dogs, If You Can Really Call Them That, Are Perhaps The Greatest Of Them All.