Dancing with dogs: Sharing your life with unconditional l♥ve & a golden bond

Each and every time I watch this little clip my eyes swell with tears...not tears of sadness but tears of happiness. To see such coordination and bond and unconditional love between a human and a dog reminds me how special my dogs are and how privileged I am to share in their lives. My heart is moved at the joy each receives from the other, this dog and his human. What those two have is how it should be, how it is supposed to be. No, I don't mean we all need to dance with our dogs, I'm talking about the bond and the pleasure and the unconditional love.


Man may think that he domesticated the dog, but I don't think he did. It was the dog's choice to take us up on our offer millions of years' ago when we tossed him a bone. The pack could have walked away leaving us to sit by the fire alone and to hunt alone and to protect ourselves alone. After all, they already had their pack order established, knew how to hunt as a group to sustain life and had coordinated their efforts in raising their young. They didn't need us at all. It was us who needed them and we got the better part of the deal.

I need my dogs. I need to talk to them and to walk with them and to play with them and to cuddle with them and to sleep with them. I need to know that they are there for me just as much as I am there for them. They are a part of who I am because without them, I would not be who I am.