Two Years Together

Here we are.  From the bottom of an emotional explosion of the heart to the most amazing and interesting two years of my life with dogs.

He rescued me.  I wanted to run away and hide. I wanted to leave dogs, again.  Mira left so suddenly and under such extremely unbelievable circumstances that I truly wished I'd never given my heart to a dog, somehow the excruciating pain in the moment of our final goodbye didn't seem worth it  And then in my most unexpected moment of angst, Dave asked me "what are you going to do, you have to have a running partner.  I'm not comfortable with you running by yourself, especially at night..." and he began looking at "husky" rescue sites and local shelter websites for an immediate companion.  I slammed the brakes on a rescue "husky".  There was no way my heart was willing to open up to a rescue that I would forever hold up to the expectation of fitting into our life as if we never missed a beat.  It wasn't fair to either of our hearts, or to the dog.

Shortly before Mira died, we had decided it was time to bring a third dog into our fold.  We had researched breeds, thinking maybe we were ready for something different when we finally decided that Siberian was the dog we wanted to stay with and a puppy would fit our needs best.  We purchased a third crate for the truck and began making plans for a puppy that would be whelped sometime the following spring/summer.

And there I stood, not knowing where to turn.  But there was a dog that had captured my imagination.  He was a beautiful Australian Shepherd that had been shown to his ASCA and AKC championship titles and was ready to find his new career.  My heart was shredded, but open so we arranged a meeting and before we had even made eye contact, I knew he was going to come home with us in the immediate future.

Fast forward to today.  Two years we have shared and grown together.  We have tried many new things and pushed each other to levels of training, learning and accomplishment that neither of us imagined before.

We played agility, herding, obedience, running and so much more in these past twenty-four months.  I will always owe him my best and he will forever own the piece of my soul that says, "yes you can" because he always proves that we can do anything we put our hearts to.