Re: [pyrnet] Fw: [ Warning - Kleenex Alert]]

[Gerry Koehler <lenscap@socal.rr.com>]

Barb,

This is so VERY eerie.  When I came back from the Saint Bernard National 
Specialty in Tucson this past weekend, I found my cat, Max, dying of liver 
failure due to FIV (feline immuno virus).  I had rescued Max from an animal 
shelter 5 years ago as a barely 2 month old grey and white long haired 
kitten. As Max grew, it was very clear that he was really a dog trapped in 
a cat's body.  He didn't act like a cat at all.....except for the butt in 
the face thing.

Just before the vet put him to sleep, he looked at me with the very same 
eyes as in the "message from Max" you forwarded.  Just when the tears were 
starting tp subside a little........

Thanks,

Gerry


>   A MESSAGE FROM MAX:
>
>   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 15 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)
>
>   "May be reposted and shared freely as long as this credit
>appears with the
>post given to J.D.Ellis 2001, rottweilerdriver@aol.com.
>
>
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