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Observations on Life

It is a special moment in our lives when we realize that we have been learning valuable lessons from our family pets. Over the last 5 years we have had one very special Welsh Corgi, Katie. She was 6 months old and discounted at a pet store, we had to get her out and bring her home. It must have been hard to have kids and family’s play with you then put you back in a plastic box and walk away.

Then she came home with us, to our family of four. From the very beginning Katie was unlike any dog we have ever had. We would joke and say that she had an old soul. We had no idea how correct we were. You can see how she is different, so open that shy kids of all ages seem to be drawn in by her. They are never afraid and to our recollection no child has refused to pet her. You can sense from one look at her face that she looks back at you and in to you. People smile, myself included at her when see she looks right back in your gaze. We first realized she was truly a caring animal when our youngest son would cry at night, she would do anything to get in to his room and sleep with her full little reddish brown body pushing on him. She would stretch out as log as she could make her self to have as much contact with Matt as possible. We had a young father, one my husbands sailors over the day before Thanksgiving. He was hurting deeply; his wife had left him and gone home with their 16-month-old daughter. She was the light in daddy’s life. We could see the deep pain in this young man, but we could not comfort him. Katie spent the entire day in this hurting sailors lap and would move only the press her face in his neck and cover his lap and chest. Every time he moved, she followed and then right back in to his lap she would go. She would look in to his eyes and nudge him. Then on Thanksgiving with twenty-two sailors and loved ones in our home, she never left him alone. This was the time we realized that she wanted to help people....