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04/11/2026

Job 12:7 - Ask now the beasts, and they shall teach thee: and the fowls of the air, and they shall tell thee.

Like God, our dogs love unconditionally and sense to comfort us when we are in need. Ms. Scarlett spent almost a quarter of my life (16 years) doing just that. She developed cancer and it became time to let her go as she was struggling with oxygen. Burial was this morning and never gets easier with each pet .

But we will celebrate her as she was not a loss but an asset. Scarlett was a lovely mixture of mutt and the most wise and responsible dog to have the pleasure of owning. She adopted our cat Bravo and taught him how to go through the doggie door. She raised a puppy chihuahua brought home and taught her to be brave while I was at work as Yodolady was scared of everything as a puppy, including the cat.

We'd like to share a poem by Beth Norman Harris. My mother gave me this poem before she passed on and said "You need to keep this because I know you are going to have a hard time letting a dog go."

Treat me kindly, my beloved friend, for no heart in all the world is more grateful for kindness than the loving heart of me.

Do not break my spirit with a stick, for though I might lick your hand between blows, your patience and understanding will more quickly teach me the things you would have me learn.

Speak to me often, for your voice is the world’s sweetest music, as you must know by the fierce wagging of my tail when the sound of your footstep falls upon my waiting ear.

Please take me inside when it is cold and wet, for I am a domesticated animal, no longer accustomed to bitter elements. I ask no greater glory than the privilege of sitting at your feet beside the hearth.

Keep my pan filled with fresh water, for I cannot tell you when I suffer thirst.

Feed me clean food that I might stay well, to romp and play and do your bidding, to walk by your side and stand ready, willing and able to protect you with my life, should your life be in danger.

And, my friend, when I am very old, and I no longer enjoy good health, hearing and sight, do not make heroic efforts to keep me going. I am not having any fun.

Please see that my trusting life is taken gently so I may leave this Earth knowing with the last breath I draw that my fate was always safest in your hands.

04/11/2026

ANIMAL QUOTES

Our task must be to free ourselves...by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living creatures and the whole of nature and its beauty. - Albert Einstein

If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men who will deal likewise with their fellow men. - St. Francis of Assisi

Nature teaches beasts to know their friends. - William Shakespeare

Life is as dear to a mute creature as it is to man. Jut as one wants happiness and fears pain, just as one wants to live and not die, so to other creatures. - The Dalai Lama

I care not for a man's religion whose dog and cat ar enot the better for it. - Abraham Lincoln

One barking dog sets the street barking. - Anonymous

Dogs come when they are called; cats take a message and get back to you later. - Mary Bly

The greatness of a nation and it's moral progress can be judged by the way its animals are treated. - Mahatma Gandhi

Are not five sparrows sold for two pennies? And not one of them is forgotten before God. - Luke 12:16

Only animals were not expelled from Paradise. - Milan Kindra

The one good place to bury a good dog is in the heart of its master. - Ben Hur Lampman

Love the animals. God has given them the Rudiments of thought and joy untroubled. - Fyodor

Animals are God's creatures. He surrounds them with his providential care. By their mere existence they bless him and give him glory. Thus, men owe them kindness. We should recall the gentleness with which saints like St. Francis of assisi or St. Philip Neri treated animals. " - Catechism of the Catholic Church

For that which befalleth the sons of man, befalleth beasts... even one thing befalleth them; as one dieth so dieth the other; yea, the have all one breath; so that a man hath no pre-eminence above a beast; for all is vanity. - Ecclesiastes 3:19

THE CREATION ....When God had made the earth and sky, the flowers, and the trees,He then made all the animals - the fish...
04/11/2026

THE CREATION ....

When God had made the earth and sky, the flowers, and the trees,
He then made all the animals - the fish, the birds, the bees.

And when at last He'd finished, not one was quite the same.
He said "I'll walk this world of mine and give each one a name."

And so he traveled far and wide, and everywhere He went,
a little creature followed Him until it's strength was spent.

When all were named upon the earth, and in they sky and sea,
the little creature said, "Dear Lord, there's not one left for me."

Kindly the Father said to him, "I've left you to the end.
I've turned my own name back to front and called you DOG, my friend."

- Author Unknown

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