Much is changing with our new president making sure he returns us to 1950s America. But there is one who is not affected by it all.
My dog.
Iām not too good to nap with a cat.
Rumpy still lies at the foot of my bed each night, and at my feet whenever Iām home.
Rumpy still walks the perimeter of our yard each morning and evening to see what smells different since the last time.
Rumpyās ears always perk up when I say “outside” or “cookie.”
Heās my constant companion when I cook and when I eat.
Sharing with the dog will bring you good luck!
He comforts me when Iām sad and listens to me when Iām mad.
I believe that basically man is cruel and selfish. One need only look to the worldās current political climate to see that.
But dogs are our link to the spiritual world. They teach me there is much more in this realm than just me and my silly, self-centered wants. There are invisible things only they see. Smells that elude me. Sounds that I donāt hear because Iām too focused on my stuff.
Yesterday when I came home, I passed a neighbor walking with her dog. The dog sat at the edge of the driveway and waited for me to exit my car just to say hello. Contrast that to the thousand or so people I pass each day at lunch as I walk downtown Nashville and not one acknowledges my presence.
Dogs are the higher evolved beings. What is a struggle for me comes naturally to them.
Rise and shine! Itās a beautiful day!
I long to see the world the way dogs do.
Yes! But fortunately, peeps (or at least, some of them) have humour: https://youtu.be/ELD2AwFN9Nc or https://twitter.com/Charles_HRH
Posted by kolytyi | January 25, 2017, 4:36 AMI saw that last night. Laughed my ass off!
Posted by rumpydog | January 25, 2017, 4:48 AMI really do agree, our Ruby is the gem in our lives she is just so much better than any human!! Me included!! xxxx
Posted by willowdot21 | January 25, 2017, 5:55 AMAnd to think they love us anyway.
Posted by rumpydog | January 25, 2017, 5:57 AMYes, deeply, truly , madly and unconditionally! ā¤
Posted by willowdot21 | January 25, 2017, 6:00 AMI agree dogs are the better peeps…..
Posted by easyweimaraner | January 25, 2017, 5:56 AMThey are certainly better than humans. The verdict is still out on whether there is any animal thatās NOT better than humans… maybe cockroaches.
Posted by rumpydog | January 27, 2017, 2:43 AMthey said they can survive everything and carry on no matter what… so even that buggers are better LOL
Posted by easyweimaraner | January 27, 2017, 2:45 AMAnd there you have it! Maybe humans are the Trumps of the natural world. ROFL
Posted by rumpydog | January 27, 2017, 2:47 AMEckart Tolle once said, āI have lived with several Zen masters — all of them cats.ā Dogs are no different in that they teach us to put our worries away and enjoy the moment.
Posted by Charles Huss | January 25, 2017, 5:59 AMI think there is some difference. Cats are tougher taskmasters.
Posted by rumpydog | January 25, 2017, 6:05 AMwhat is a struggle for human comes easy for dogs and other animals…humans are never satisfied, unlike dogs, they have that sense of fulfillment just being with a family…
Posted by smartandpracticalparenting | January 25, 2017, 6:10 AMHumans donāt know the meaning of enough.
Posted by rumpydog | January 25, 2017, 6:16 AMhahaha, i agree…
Posted by smartandpracticalparenting | January 25, 2017, 6:25 AMThatās the life!
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Posted by Roy Sexton (Reel Roy Reviews) | January 25, 2017, 7:40 AMMaybe one day weāll be so worthy. š
Posted by rumpydog | January 25, 2017, 7:41 AMSounds like the perfect existence. Tonight I A) Had a guest for dinner. And B) Set and Sat at the table……Both rare to never happen so chasing Jamima off the table as she inched closer and closer to my plate of roasted veggies and tandoori marinated butterflied lamb roast(Australia Day tomorrow) Had to chase Jamima her off several times before eventually giving her my guests plate on the floor. Tasty gravy a plenty………..
Posted by helentastic67 | January 25, 2017, 7:55 AMSounds like Jamima knows how to play it to get what she wants!
Posted by rumpydog | January 25, 2017, 8:29 AMIāve been enjoying my time with our dog Greta more and more the past weeks. I think I know why now! Thanks for the post.
Posted by mfearing | January 25, 2017, 8:27 AMThey know what we need even when we donāt.
Posted by rumpydog | January 25, 2017, 8:31 AM“We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature and living by complicated artifice, man in civilization surveys the creature through the glass of his knowledge and sees thereby a feather magnified and the whole image in distortion. We patronize them for their incompleteness, for their tragic fate of having taken form so far below ourselves. And therein we err, and greatly err. For the animal shall not be measured by man. In a world older and more complete than ours they move finished and complete, gifted with extensions of the senses we have lost or never attained, living by voices we shall never hear. They are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time, fellow prisoners of the splendor and travails of the earth.” Henry Beston, The Outermost House, 1928.
Posted by tweed bloxom | January 25, 2017, 10:10 AMWow!
Posted by rumpydog | January 25, 2017, 10:59 AMThis is a great post. I wish youād send it into your newspaper. But then those that are selfish/mean probably wouldnāt get it if they read it. I feel the same about my dogs, the only children we have. So poignant the mention about the dog in the driveway. Makes me feel so sad that people donāt treat each other better. It takes so little to smile. Obviously this his a nerve. Thanks.
Posted by The Persecution of Mildred Dunlap | January 25, 2017, 10:17 AMI never met a dog I didnāt like. Canāt say the same for humans.
Posted by rumpydog | January 25, 2017, 10:59 AMAww, such a heartwarming post and adorable pictures. Thank you so much for sharing š Henry
Posted by Henry | January 25, 2017, 3:20 PMThanks, Henry. Looks like an interesting vet clinic youāre representing!
Posted by rumpydog | January 27, 2017, 2:44 AMMore like 1950ās Russia. Just saying. #Trumplethinskin
Dogs will be the new therapy modality while we live through this nightmare.
Posted by Tails Around the Ranch | January 25, 2017, 4:29 PMI think so.
Posted by rumpydog | January 25, 2017, 5:18 PMHerr trump is taking us back to Germany in the 30ās.
Posted by corkscot | January 25, 2017, 7:18 PMI believe youāre right.
Posted by rumpydog | January 26, 2017, 2:40 AMOh to be a dog…
Posted by apunkwithms | January 25, 2017, 11:39 PMIf only I were so lucky.
Posted by rumpydog | January 26, 2017, 2:41 AMAny of our pets a better than Humans,and I believe the this planet would be better off without us humans wrecking the place.Speedy is my Sunshine in our world and I always try to see it through his eye and ears at least once a day,it makes for a better day that way,xx Rachel
Posted by speedyrabbit | January 26, 2017, 1:59 AMIt certainly does. No preconceived notions. Just life on lifeās terms.
Posted by rumpydog | January 26, 2017, 2:42 AMYes. What a gift that would be. Iāve been dogless for more than a year now. Itās killing me. Especially now. When all I seem to do is scream at the TV or computer. Where is my Stuart to look at me, cock his head and say, “what up peep?”
Posted by The Scottie Chronicles | January 26, 2017, 3:45 PMIt may be time for another companion.
Posted by rumpydog | January 27, 2017, 2:44 AMI so agree with you. Dogs are much more humane than mankind. I think theyāre more intelligent also. We could all learn from them if we would only shut up and pay attention.
Posted by Susan Langer | January 26, 2017, 6:27 PMI fear we think far too much of ourselves for that to ever happen.
Posted by rumpydog | January 27, 2017, 2:45 AMI think I would like to be your dog. Or for that matter, either of MY dogs.
Posted by Marilyn Armstrong | January 26, 2017, 11:31 PMAs long as Iām not one of those purse dogs. Ugh! Who wants to live in the purse?
Posted by rumpydog | January 27, 2017, 2:46 AMtotally agree with every word!
Posted by murphysmission | January 27, 2017, 2:39 AMThanks!
Posted by rumpydog | January 27, 2017, 2:46 AMGosh was the 1950s really that awful stateside?
Posted by Isobel | January 27, 2017, 4:04 PMNot if you were a white man.
Posted by rumpydog | January 27, 2017, 4:12 PMHow about a white man with a socail conscience?
Posted by Isobel | January 27, 2017, 4:16 PMThis article is great.
Youāre dog it awesome.
Posted by byrontosaurus | February 9, 2017, 3:27 AMHe is a beauty! Great post, it is HARD not to be a dog lover, they are truly amazing animals and we can learn so much from them.
Posted by sunsunnyblog | June 4, 2017, 1:47 AM