I am a dog person. Always have been. I believe the dog was created especially for human love. No other animal God created needs the human connection like a dog.

I read this article recently that really touched my heart. It’s about this man who looks about my age who had a dog well into its years that died. It broke his heart, so he went to the local dog shelter and said he wanted to adopt the oldest dog at most risk of being put down. Basically, the dog no one else wanted. He took that dog home and gave it love during its final season of life.

This became his way of giving back and remembering his dog that had died. Now he has 11 aged dogs that he is loving and caring for in their final stages of life. Some are feeble, some are blind, some are so weak they can’t walk. This man loves them, feeds them, holds them and spends time each day with every dog. When one dies, he goes to the shelter and gets another one and brings it home.

This article almost brought tears to my eyes because in the picture of him and his 11 dogs, there is a very old small Yorkie and very old Sheltie like our dogs that died. I imagine that in our final days and hours, God does the same thing for us. He holds us, loves us, comforts us like this man does for these dogs that no one else wants. KT