To Be or Not To Be...A Dog?

"Rosie," the puppy -- our first dog

Who can't love this puppy?--It pretty hard not to-- this is a very lovable, adorable puppy that anyone who meets it, those who like dogs or who don't will "fall in love" with our first puppy, pictured here!  Please read my following post on To Be Or Not To Be...A Dog? 

Hello My Blogger Friends, 

Today I would like to explore a topic about dogs.  Now, I am not one to like dogs nor talk about them, pet them, hold them, "play with them", or, for that matter get near, near them.   As you may or may not know, my sister ask for a puppy since my other sister was going away to college (I'm living at home this first year).  So, we did.  Our puppy is named "Rosie" and is pictured above.  Now, enough about this, what could be called "background info" on this topic that I would like to explore with you all and on to what I was thinking just hours earlier this early-evening...

As I get better acquainted with our "petite" puppy, I get this feeling--better yet, this imaginable "feeling" of what would it be like to be a dog.  I see our small, while still very much lovable dog.  Now, to be faithful honest, I was not big into getting a dog, let along this small puppy.  But, obviously, now, I've gotten--a little--used to this "petite" puppy.   You could say that I'm not afraid of dogs anymore, but that would be a "lie"--sure there are still some "bigger" dogs that I am still afraid of, but "petite" dogs such as this one (as pictured above). 

What would it be like to be a dog?--to just be lying there all day? to lie in your crate, to play, to not "speak as a human" and only "speak like a dark--bark, bark, whine, whine, etc."  I was thinking about this lately... what would it be like to be a dog?  If you all just imagine this for a few minutes now--think  about it.   Wouldn't it be neat to be a "petite" puppy like the one photographed above?  or not?  I think that it might be-- well for starters, you won't have any of the human pressures and deals with work, etc.,--but in all reality, I like my life--as a human.  But, its fun to think about this--what it would be like to be a dog--don't you think? -- I look forward to hearing your comments to this post or email feedback about this imagining question.  

Well, that's about all now.   

Remember folks... this weekend I will be on retreat at Shellbourne.  

Hope to blog to you again sometime soon. 

Have a very Happy Halloween Today, happy All Saints Day tomorrow, happy All Souls Day on sunday, and a happy autumnal day!

Take Care,

-Dan