Sunday, 22 July 2012

A Sordid Love Affair

The one thing amazing about animals is that you can almost literally have a love affair with them at first glance. I've had 'love affairs' with cavaliers, malteses, German shepherds and the like. Just about 5minuutes ago, I had a 3 seconds flirt fest with a beagle infant.

The little fella was engaging his mistress on a tag of war that was suppose to be his morning walk, when we locked eyes as he walked by. Beagles have naturally huge, watery and reddish eyes and the little dude looked as if he had been crying the entire night. I'm just saying. He obviously hasn't. Looks happy as pie.

I truly believe animals know instinctively if you genuinely love them or not. Most people mistake their approach as predatory when in most cases it could just be them sensing you being inquisitive about them and walking up to let you find out more and vice versa. Of course there are the crazy ones which we should all steer clear of but most animals I've encountered are sweet to the bone. And they surprise me all the time.

It's one of the reasons why many animal rights advocators feel that if you can be half as patient and willing as your pet, you would be a much better person. I agree so much that I have a whole poem stuck to my wardrobe on the the qualities of animals we should all be mimicking. How many of us can say we love someone when they are the exact same people who caused us the worst distress of our lives?

This ends my story on my love affair with animals.

Tolora

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