DIANNE’S DOGHOUSE
Looking For Love
One of the most favorite people in my life is Martha Jorden. When I wrote my first Dianne’s Doghouse book, she wrote my forward. Since she knew every inch of my life with rescuing and caring for dogs, this is part of what she wrote: “Dogs often attend to our unspoken wounds. They sense a need and enter a person’s space slowly, respectfully. They nurture by intimacies openly given.”
My favorite T-shirt says: I WISH I COULD BE THE PERSON MY DOG THINKS I AM. This quote mirrors the power of how, when someone thinks well of us, we rise to that belief.
Whether some of my rescues—Dusty, Shadow, Pete, Joy, Olive, Esther, Jill, to name a few realized it, their lives were about to change—for the good!
This is what these wounded pups taught me:
- Please treat me kindly for no heart in all the world is more grateful than me.
- Do not break my spirit with a stick for patience and understanding will teach me more quickly than the beatings.
- When it is cold please take me inside, for I am a domesticated pup and wish to sit beside your feet in a warm house
- Keep my pan filled with water because I cannot tell you I suffer with thirst.
- If I lose my health or sight, please don’t turn me away but rather hold me gently in your arms.
- Remember I will walk by your side and stand ready, willing and able to protect you with my life if your life is in danger.
Thank you to every single person who rescued a pup. I hope this act of kindness made you smile or tear up or think about a special dog in your life. I hope that it reminds you that it’s never too late to begin again and that sometimes we find our next steps in totally unexplained ways.
I get to do what I love to do because of each of you that came into my life.
There are lots of rescuing opportunities for me and you whether they be animals, children or older folks. Keep looking for these situations around you and jump in to help!
Blessings, Dianne Hammontree
