Unconditional Love

We have had Pebbles now for nine plus years, and she is the sweetest little girl. It took her a very long time to acclimate, but she still struggles with being aggressive with the other dogs at times. She is always on defensive mode; I can sympathize with her because that is how I am. She has been treated so horribly that if you scold her with saying you are a bad girl in a normal tone, she will still urinate till this very day.

I cannot even imagine the hell she has gone through; what I know is horrible enough and heartbreaking. Every single evening while I am watching television, she will jump on my lap unexpectedly and just stare at me. She has done this every single day since she came home from the ICU hospital stay years ago. She will stare at me so intently and then she will lean against hugging me for a few minutes then she jumps down going on her merry way.

It has always tickled me but today it hit me, the magnitude of what she is doing, she is reassuring me how grateful she is, or making sure I still love her. She is such an expressive animal and seems to just know… You know what I mean. This evening when she did, I was overcome with emotion and memories of the time I picked her up at the hospital after weeks in ICU.

We both have never forgotten that moment.

Today I am grateful that the universe blessed me with this amazing little girl, I hope and pray she can feel my unconditional love for her.