It's Better When We're together

Those of you who have faithfully followed this blog over the years know that it was started for two reasons. I had lost someone so dear to me....my first service dog, Jet~ who literally loved the world back for me....and recieved my dearest Frax, my successor dog, who is snoring on my shoulder right now.

Dogs don't know the past. They don't care about the future. They are here with YOU in the moment, and that is all in the world that has any meaning to them~ your love, and the unconditional love that they give....

If you are a very lucky person, and I have been one....love will follow you all your life. Sure, bad stuff happens, jobs that are grim, people who are hurtful, worry about what will be next when worry never helped or solved anything. If I've learned anything it's this: Love is stronger than life itself, and the more you love, and spread it around, well, it makes life worth living. None of that other stuff does.

This is Jet. He was my first service dog. He died in my arms, shy of his fourth birthday.

He saved my life many times. He knew if I would seizure, fifteen to twenty minutes beforehand. I could take medication, and I wouldn't seizure....can you imagine how he opened up my world? He helped me to walk, and showed me what unconditional love is, and it's power~ over meaness, hate, pettiness......life is MUCH better. Love has eternal power over death. Jet was a good teacher.

And now I work with Jet's cousin, Frax. He was given to me as a sucessor dog. Eight months after Jet passed. And Frax and I are a Team. They are as different as night and day, and that's good. (See the #1 of black fur on Jet's nose?

It was the most difficult thing in the world, to go on without Jet. Frax has been so patient, so gentle. So BIG....We've been a team a little over seven years. He's always with me, though bad days and good. He helps me to walk, just like Jet did. He is a seizure-response dog also. He can tell me one is coming about ten minutes before....love IS the answer. Dogs know. Jet and Frax know. Love one another, hug your dog, and I promise....it's all gonna be alright. WOOF!

This is Frax, giving me a kiss.

And my husband and I on our anniversary last year is below.

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listen to these words. If Jet could have spoken, these are the words he left me with....and he gave me the courage to seek and to carry on....and find that the human heart can be unconditional too. When we went home with our dogs, there was pictures of all of us, smiling, happy to just be there! And in the point in the song, it says "but theres "not enough time" and it showed Jret and I smiling at each other. I burst into happy tears then, and my life changed forever. For the better......