The more I know about people, the better I like my dog, and being the person behind the web site Pedigree Dogs, I’d say there wasn’t a truer word spoken.
Putting yourself out there via the World Wide Web ensures that you cross all sorts of peoples paths, and as the saying goes “There’s nought queerer than folk”
Trust me I have come across a few of those over the last few weeks !
Having said that there are certain things that you can control in yours and your dogs life, like the food we eat, the water we drink and the exercise we take as well as the drugs, toxins and chemicals we expose ourselves and our dogs to on a daily basis.
Everything else is out of your control.
There is so much that can go wrong from the day that our pups enter this world if you are a dog breeder, or from the day the puppy is introduced to your house if you have purchased a dog from a responsible breeder or rescued from a welfare group or shelter.
Just because you have researched the breed, and sourced a responsible breeder that only breeds from health tested parents, feeds a nutritionally balanced diet, and socialises the litter of pups in that crucial development stage of their life, doesn’t mean that that dog will go on to live a long and healthy life, but at least you are stacking the odds in your favour.
A couple of months back I penned a blog called There’s No F In Dog which stated that as a dog owner we live in a mild state of fear all the time.
It’s strange then, and I’m not sure about you, but I have to admit, that sometimes I do take my dogs for granted.
When you think about all that has gone wrong with dogs from your past, and maybe of what might or can go wrong with the dogs that fill your lives today, surely we should cherish every second that we spend with them.
Maybe then, the next time you come home from a dog show with a blue ribbon for second instead of the red one for winning, try to remember the love your dog brings into your life, and what life would be without him or her. Without your dog, all you’d have left to deal with are people, and we all know how crazy some of them can be.
Dogs’ lives are too short. Their only fault, really.
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