I am your pet, 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?

                                      
                  
     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 that 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 other 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 may not even seem to know until the
  very end, when we look at you with graying muzzles and cataract-
  clouded eyes. Still the love is always here, even when we must
  take that long sleep to run free in a distant land

      
      I may not be here tomorrow ~ I may not be here next week.
  Someday you will shed the water 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 "trainer" or even "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 because you wanted
  a soul to share such things with. Someone very different from you
  and here I am. I am your pet, but I am alive. I feel emotion. I
  feel senses, and I can revel in the differences of our spirits and
  souls.  I do not think of you as a "pet 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 only for l5 minutes. Look deep into 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.

                                                       Author Unknown
  
                                                           
    All of these cats and dogs are waiting for their forever homes. 
                           
  Won't you find it in your heart to make their dreams come true?
                  
                  
t They will give you unconditional love
n                 and bring numerous days of joy your way.

           
                                                                                       
          

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