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I was thinking how much animals can help you relieve stress and how their unconditional love has great healing power. That reflection came after teaching salsa dance to my temporary neighbor's dog, while I am still stranded here in Italy, with a sister in the hospital.
The doggie's "mama" is from Colombia so it made sense for this "senorita" to learn how to shake her butt following the music rhytm. The pudgy, older dog, a cocker spaniel with heart problems, is now convinced to be a hot chick. She walks around the neighborhood swinging her hips left and right and attracting lot of male attention. And, of course, my mood too greatly improved.
I still miss my dog Moki, who's home and taken care of by my roommate, but it felt good to pet this bundle of blonde-reddish hair.
How many of us are in love with animals, just one or the whole race?
I definitely am. Sometimes I feel like it's so much easier to communicate with them. But I do prefer mammals. Link TextBecoming a Nurse, instead, is admittedly in love with a parrot, "a bird with a brain not bigger than a walnut". I have been following her blog for other reasons since I am around nurses a lot at the hospital where my sister is trying to recover from a deep coma. And I love her humor and humanity.
Then there is also Link TextAlithinks, who picks up a stray cat in the middle of the hassle of moving out of her apartment. She gets stressed about not finding a
good home for the kitty and she's distressed about the option of abandoning "Sumatra" to her destiny. But in the admist of chaos, miracles, they do happen, as she wrote in her post.
"Have you got rid of the cat?"
"Not yet, but --"
"Don't! I've found someone who'll take her."
Four hours later, Sumatra left here to go live with a nice English family. I feel sure that she'll be happy and well cared-for.
Compassion usually pays off.
