One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest. That was my first thought upon awakening yesterday morning as my eyes quickly settled upon Shelly's pill laying on the floor. It still had a few residual crumbs left on it from being cleverly encased in one of her favorite nugget treats, or so I thought!
I can't believe that little stinker. I actually got up at 1:30 a.m. to walk downstairs where Shelly was sleeping to give her this crucial pill that I had forgotten earlier. She appeared to take it...that is until I saw it on our bedroom floor. Not only did she fool me, she transported it to the second floor!
So why did I bother getting out of bed in the middle of the night just to give Shelly a pill? Perhaps I'm the one who belongs in an asylum!
Last week we started on a journey with an integrative veterinarian. This is all new to me even though I've been through the cancer thing several years back with our other tri-sheltie, Tess, who was also 10 years old upon a diagnosis of lymphoma. This time, I'm going to do all I can with Shelly to win this fight and try to give her more happy years of being our Frisbee dog!
It also helps when you have pet insurance, which we do as I had previously sold it for Trupanion. So glad I kept it!
So after our initial visit last week, I came home with a handful of bottles containing natural homeopathic herbs and such. I'm a true believer that we are what we eat, and I do believe this extends to our furry friends as well. I also believe without question that mother nature holds the keys to all of our illness'. After all, how did people get healed before there were CVS pharmacies on every corner???
We've bumped up our program substantially. Now I give Shelly powders, pills and oils a couple times a day. Oh yes, did I mention that I'm supposed to give her liver and dark leafy greens? The liver isn't a problem for her, it grosses me out, but dogs aren't herbivores by nature!! Fighting with her daily is beginning to wear in just a short week. There's only so many ways that I can disguise kale or spinach to satisfy a canine's palette!
So why am I really doing all of this? I've questioned myself. We both love Shelly as she has been our family member for just over 10 years now. While exercising on my spin bike this a.m., it occurred to me why. LOYALTY. TRUST. LOVE.
Shelly is truly a devoted and loyal dog. She always comes by my side whenever I go into the basement like I did today. She will lay there as long as I take to finish my workout. What a sweet face! What's really cute is when I start singing to my music, she'll jump in too. She barks and barks and barks...
Is there anyone more loyal than a treasured pet? Perhaps this is a model we can observe as to how God is with us. He is faithful and just. He never changes.
2 Timothy 2:13 if we are faithless, he remains faithful—for he cannot deny himself.
I guess it's also really a matter of my compassion. I also know that our heavenly father looks at all creatures with love and compassion.
Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Matthew 6:26
In reflecting upon this, yes, God places a high price on us as humans. So much that he sent his one and only son to die for us! Do you know of any other person that has died just for you?
God also provides the birds for our benefit. They sing beautiful songs, they provide beauty. I know I surely enjoy our feeders which brings them to our backyard. So if God provides for even the birds, wouldn't he surely provide for us as his word above says?
Therefore, it's another model of compassion that God shows us of his great love for us! How great a love as this?
See what great love the Father has lavished on us, that we should be called children of God! And that is what we are! The reason the world does not know us is that it did not know him. 1John 3:1
Is it no wonder that some say dog spelled backwards = GOD??
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