CHASE
He was a close companion because he provided love, comfort, safety, warmth, happiness, levity, wonder, laughter, and friendship. It was something you know who loves you more than he loves himself. Check on his the moment you open your eyes, you think about him when you are away, and you feel excited to see him on your way home, how you almost sleep together every single night. He’s different among the others because he has the beauty you cannot stop thinking about. His skin, his scent, the way he walks and moves, even the sound he makes.
To say I love animals cannot begin to encapsulate my feelings about them. I have loved them with such passion all my life and remember fondly every animal and bird trusted to my keeping or crossing my path.
I’m not really a pet person or whatever, but when I met him, things changed. I lost Susie not too long ago and ever since, I kept my distance to anything clingy. It hurts. I do not / could never view them in the ways of the world. While communicating with them, never would I want to “humanise” them. That is an affront to the animal kingdom and ultimately to ourselves. We are not animals. We are meant to be higher up the chain of evolution, though sadly many times I feel we are anything but that.
No dog has ever not come with me no matter how their owners have stated they were “one man dogs”. But I love him. The moment I put my hands around him. For whatever reason, it did break my heart seeing him suffer. There is an openness and vulnerability in an animal that breaks my heart. I have no time for those who say that they do not like animals because blah blah. The fault is always with us. Domesticated or wild they are our teachers.
When we lost him, there was a deafening sound in our hearts we couldn’t explain. Until one has loved an animal, a part of one’s soul remains unawakened. We knew deep in our hearts we would never find another kind like him. I wouldn’t want to call him a pet. He was never that. He was not our whole life. He made our life whole.
We love you, Chase. <3
