The lovely Layla

Do you have an animal companion?  Have you ever shared a special bond with an animal?

Ever loyal, these little critters never abandon our sides and  we share a big deal of our lives with them.

Karol Noh brings us a breath-taking short essay on her pet dog: Layla

Check it out after the break

The lovely Layla

When you were a puppy all my family loved you. You used to sleep all the day and just ate small wet croquettes. Everyone wanted to be with you all the day and the nights. I remembered when you bit my mom’s new shoes. That was your first gift to my mom.  

Magic moments I spend with you, when you were 3 months, you slept in my hammock and every time that my dad saw us, I got a punishment. I loved the way that you walked around my feet and when I had to spend a night awake you were always with me.

Months were gone so fast and you became an adult dog, the attention of my family was not the same.  My sisters hated you when you peed on the floor but I was unable to hit you and I always had to resign and cleaned the floor.

Unfortunately my family and I moved on and my dad didn´t want to you be inside of the house. You used to be all the day with me, it was hard but you got used to being outside.

I was in high school and just saw you twice a day. In the morning I fed you and at night I just said you goodbye. On weekends we played for an hour. I need to confess that I didn’t spend much time with you in that time. But I still love you and I will whatever to be with you now.

Years were gone and I got a place on the University and now you were 7 year old. One day in the morning you couldn’t walk and I didn’t know why. I suppose that you were numbed so I didn’t worry a lot. When I got to home you still laid down on the floor. I had to call to the vet and then the vet confirmed that you had cancer. You never had puppies and I never sterilised you, this is my blame and I am deeply regret to do it to you. I decided that it was time to sleep in my room again. You have learned to go by yourself to the bathroom outside of my house; I am an adult too and my dad had to understand that you were my priority. I am sorry Layla for all the damage that I made to you.

One year after... you are 8 years, your brown hair has turned into white. You are always sleeping and move your tail when I approach to you. You are always with me. If I am on the ground floor, you will be there too, when I need to take a bath, you are always waiting to out of there.

In these days you have all my attention and I hope that you forgive me for those years that you were alone. I am sorry Layla. You know that you are all for me now, I have learned how much love you can give me although that I didn’t give you the same love for 4 years.

I      LOVE     YOU     TODAY     AND     YOU     WILL     BE      IN     MY     HEART     FOREVER