New Assistant

I am proud to announce that I have a new assistant.  She has spent 2 months working with me at my office, at SplashDog and accompanies me on location.  She has also taken on the role of personal trainer but knows when I need serious downtime and is helpful in keeping me on track. 

The training was intense, a trial by fire, beginning full time from day one and she has performed incredibly.

Some of her main duties include greeting clients, helping with emotional balancing, aiding relaxation by checking in with clients during sessions, protection of occupants in case of intruders, checking pool before and after shifts with full immersion test of water temp's, protection of auto during on location visits, break enforcement.  Oh, and wiggles, licks and available for as much petting as anyone wants to give her.  

Devi is available Mon., Tue., Thu., Fri., and Sat. all day.  If you haven't met her yet, I hope you will be as happy with her service as I am and my clients have been so far.

Welcome Devi and thank you for being such an amazing helper.

To know them is to love them

This story is awesome.  It just goes to show that dogs are so much more than utilities or property.  Any of us who have truly 'shared' our lives with them know this unwaveringly, but there are still folks out there that are ignorant and lacking enough compassion and empathy to see and feel the true nature of these amazing beings.

I like to think that those are the people that this dog prays for.  And yes, I do believe dogs can pray, they can hope and dream.  Not the same as we do I suppose, but we know they can project what the outcome of something will be and that they long for companionship and food.  

When I hear of some of the awful things that people still do and think about animals, dogs especially, I just don't understand it.  My mind spins and I have to allow myself to believe in monsters, abominations that are cruel, incapable of empathy and compassion towards those that are different, helpless.

Those are the ones I hope this dog is praying for.  

Those are the ones who may be understanding in another lifetime how the ones they look down on now really do feel.

I'm only human and that is what I am praying for!

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