I inspired someone to incredulity today. And perhaps something close to hysterical laughter.
My puppy Blossom is ill. I noticed that she wasn’t her normal self on Friday and she gradually got worse until yesterday when she stopped eating completely.
I bundled her off to the vet and she has some kind of intestinal / gut infection. Lots of medicine, an injection to bring her high temperature down and home we came with stern instructions to ‘keep a good eye on her’.
In all of that palava , in the getting her to the vet and it being confirmed to me just how sick she was, in the stress of the day – I’m afraid my tears got the better of me.
I am by nature an emotional person. I am by nature a nurturer and a carer. I am by nature, an animal person. Put those 3 things together plus a sick dog and you have a recipe for tears.
I was telling a friend of mine about all the ‘dramaticals’ as I like to call it when someone from outside of the conversation decided they were entitled to an opinion.
Apparently, dogs are just dogs. There is no point in getting emotional with them. They are just another animal.
Apparently, I have a screw or two loose because I love my menagerie and do everything in my power to make their lives better.
Apparently, I am a somewhat sad soul and my attachment to my animals explains why I am single.
Apparently, dogs (and animals in general) don’t have a soul.
They may be just dogs to you, but that does not make you right.
I may very well have a screw loose but caring of another living being is my choice and my privilege.
I am definitely not a sad soul, I’m perhaps quite the opposite actually. And I am single because not all of us need to be one of two.
Humans have souls and we are responsible for the worst atrocities I can think of. I am glad animals don’t have souls. They have something better. Purer. Cleaner. There is no word for it I don’t think. But it is in their eyes.
I do not understand people who view animals as something to be used and discarded, like last weeks rubbish.
We really should learn to do the same.