Found this on Kat(hleen) Berard's website (another Animal Communicator, with a GREAT website) and thought most folks here could relate to this touching article which is allowed to be passed on. It would obviously also apply to ANY creature in our keeping.

A MESSAGE FROM MAX (the Rottweiler)

My name is Max and I have a little something I'd like to whisper in your ear.

I know that you humans lead busy lives. Some have to work, some have children to raise. It always seems like you are running here and there, often much too fast, often never noticing the truly grand things in life.

Look down at me now, while you sit there at your computer. See the way my dark brown eyes look at yours? They are slightly cloudy now; that comes with age. The grey hairs are beginning to ring my soft muzzle. You smile at me; I see love in your eyes. What do you see in mine?

Do you see a spirit, a soul inside who loves you as no other could in the world? A spirit that would forgive all trespasses of prior wrong doing for just a simple moment of your time? That is all I ask. To slow down if even for a few minutes to be with me.

So many times you have been saddened by the words you read on that screen, of others of my kind passing. Sometimes we die young and oh so quickly, sometimes so suddenly it wrenches your heart out of your throat. Sometimes we age so slowly before your eyes that you do not even seem to know, until the very end, when we look at you with grizzled muzzles and cataract-clouded eyes. Still the love is always there, even when we take that long sleep, to run free in distant lands.

I may not be here tomorrow; I may not be here next week. Someday you will shed the waters from your eyes, that humans have when deep grief fills their souls, and you will be angry at yourself that you did not have just "One more day" with me.

Because I love you so, your sorrow touches my spirit and grieves me. We have Now, together. So come, sit down here next to me on the floor. And look deep into my eyes. What do you see? If you look hard and deep enough we will talk, you and I, heart to heart. Come to me not as "alpha" or as a "trainer" or even a "Mom or Dad", come to me as a living soul and stroke my fur and let us look deep into one another's eyes, and talk. I may tell you something about the fun of chasing a tennis ball, or I may tell you something profound about myself, or even life in general. You decided to have me in your life (I hope) because you wanted a soul to share just such things with. Someone very different from you, and here I am.

I am a dog, but I am alive. I feel emotion, I feel physical senses, and I can revel in the differences of our spirits and souls. I do not think of you as a "Dog on two feet", I know what you are. You are Human, in all your quirkiness, and I love you still.

Now, come sit with me, on the floor. Enter my world, and let time slow down if even for only 15 minutes. Look deep in my eyes, and whisper to my ears. Speak with your heart, with your joy, and I will know your true self. We may not have tomorrow, and life is oh so very short.

Love, Max
(on behalf of all canines everywhere)


["May be reposted and shared freely as long as this credit appears

with the post given to J.D.Ellis 2001, rottweilerdriver@aol.com".

You can meet Max von Sydow CGC at http://hometown.aol.com/shadowsara/index.html]

Hi Furkidlet's Mom:

Thank you for sharing this .

It's beautiful!

Peace & Love to you and yours,

Denise

All in there is so true. Funny, just today I told an acquaintance that that soul cat loved me as no other could in the world, I now feel like a heart without a home We would never say that about a person, wether a husband or a child or a parent, that they loved us more than anything else in the world because deep down inside we're not that sure, but for our dear pets, we are sure. How comforting and yes Furkidlets' mom, we should give our loves a big hug and 'hold' that moment into eternity. thanks for the fresh breeze and your usual fantastic input.

I know August 23 must have been a difficult day for you, you are very brave but know we all are there for you. Thanks again, thanks many times over.

I'm glad you both like this as much as I do. We have Kat Berard to thank, for including it on her wonderful website and allowing it to be shared.

Speaking of eloquent prose,

Oh my, that's so perfect.

I can't believe you even remembered that Nissa's One Year was on Aug. 23! Thank you for remembering, and for mentioning it here. Yes, it was awful, and even worse to now be OVER one year. It can't BE. My heart says it was only a few months ago, surely.....I'm back to crying every single day again, day and night. I miss my little girl more and more with each passing day, just as I my love for her grows at an equal rate. I miss, more than words can say, staring into each other's eyes and souls and feeling the absolute sacredness and enormity of our love for each other. Even though I'm still me, I'm no one without her. I don't want "one more day" with her. I want nothing short of eternity.

I hear you loud and clear, never thought one could continue loving but this is indeed what happens to the point of going crazy, I agree. I go off to meditate, close my eyes and I see an ET figure but I know its Yukon. I will miss him forever, I always knew we belonged together. I cry easily,
not at night but I make damned sure I've overworked myself to be knocked out for 7 hours or so. Then I wake up, come here and cry a touch. Then I can carry on until I reserve those spare moments to go off where they were buried and sit there and see
these almond eyes in a blur behind my own closed eyelids. I am all heart with you.

You sure know how to make a guy cry......

Yah, but John....not just ANY guy....only guys like you and the other ones on LS.... You're the ones who see beyond the surface.....