My Loving Tribute To Dogs

On National Dog Day

This little poem was written by me when I was in the fifth grade...

Dogs can be brown or black or white,

Some will bark and some will bite,

Some will do some good tricks, too,

They will do their tricks for you,

Some dogs are brave,

Some dogs are true,

And that's the kind of dog for you!

This was before the fifth grade, but they didn't take a lot of pictures of me.

The poem was inspired by my wonderful, intelligent, brown, mixed breed dog, Fluffy. In addition, the poem ended up in the school newspaper, which was like winning the Pulitzer Prize for a fifth grader! 

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My dad gave me a "pull it surprise" when I pulled his finger!

I don't think it hurt that my sister, Dee-Dee, was working on the school newspaper at the time.  She denies having ANY involvement in having it published, but I still have my suspicions.

            Dee - Dee is the cute little girl behind me, in front.

Most folks I talk to (and that ain't too many) will tell me that their childhood dog was the greatest dog in the world! I have written extensively about Fluffy! I even have a chapter about him in one of my books! Although I forgot which book. 

I'll look it up. Okay, it was in my first book, "Chicken's Butts and Coconuts, chapter 6. The title is "Fluffy!"

A partial image of Fluffy is in this photo of my mom, at bottom left, but hard to see. That's all I got, unfortunately.

Today, I'm asking you to say a little bit about your beloved dog, from the past or present, without shedding too many tears.

Everyone knows that dog is God spelled backwards, and that proves that God meant to show us His loving qualities through dogs, right? (By the way, this is my own theory, not to be viewed as scriptural or anything)

Dogs love us unconditinally...like God.

Dogs comfort us...like God.

Dogs rescue folks in trouble...like God.

Dogs lead the blind...like God.

Dogs warn us of dangers...like God.

Dogs forgive us when we act badly toward them...like God. 

Will our sweet departed dogs come to meet us in heaven?  The answer is YES! 

I know this from Is. 11:6 

 The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. 7 And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox.

"But Danny boy," you say, doubtingly, "there are NO DOGS mentioned in Is. 11:6!"

Maybe not, but think this through, logically, like I never do. If God is gonna have lambs, leopards, lions, calves, bears, fatlings (whatever they are), and wolves, a close relative to the dog, in paradise, isn't it a sure thing that he will have our precious dogs with us as well?!! Slam dunk!! Drop the mic, you betcha he will!!! 

So in conclusion, my dear friends, you owe it to your dogs, past and present, to make a heartfelt comment here on my blog, or on Facebook, even just one word would satisfy God, I believe, and He is most certainly reading Facebook today! Maybe not my blog, but Facebook is pretty much universal!! 

Have a howling good National Dog Day, and don't forget to have them spayed or neutered, and don't leave them in a hot car, and make sure they have a lot of water to drink, and give them a LOT of attention, and if you don't have a dog, adopt one today!!! 

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