Dog Love

Dogs taught me how to love.
Dogs showed me how to care.
They have kept me in this world.

I can imagine myself when I was little, looking at dogs and how they interacted with their owners. Their attention, their comfort, their comradery. It showed me how to respond to people. How to connect with others. The enthusiasm and happiness dogs show when reunited with those they care about.

I've felt no stronger love and bond to anyone as to my first dogson. I was only 19 when I got him, he was mine and I raised him on my own. I remember the first night, the day I brought him home, how scared I suddenly felt realizing I was all this little ball of fur had. He was fully dependent on me and it was my job to give him the best life I could possibly give.
He was my son in every way. I wish I could've been a dog with him, ran next to him.
He passed when he was only 8 years old, his heart couldn't handle it anymore. Losing him is the hardest thing I've ever went through. I screamed in the room, over his body. I still miss him every day.

I feel like I can only imagine how a bond feels from the dog's perspective. I think I know, as a dog therian, fantasizing about a human I am bonded to. How I'd give my life for them. Do anything to hear them laugh. Wag my tail joyfully just being around them. How we'd rest together, go on adventures together. A pack of two. I'd lick away their tears when I see them cry. Just like me and my first dogson, I'd be with them through the hard times and the good and be a reason to get up in the morning and live.
I'd be honored to bright up someone's life the way a dog does.