A MESSAGE FROM MAX
JD Ellis 2001

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 fifteen 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)
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