Wednesday, 28 May 2014

Dog versus Ventolin

Well some days life really sucks.  And then some days – it sucks even more.  But one thing I have learned is that no matter how much it sucks you just have to keep putting one foot in front of the other and find the happiness in each day.  It is there.  It’s just sometimes you have to look very hard for something very small.  But when you see it – it makes the day worth living.  For me today, it was one of my many animals that made me laugh.  Actually, technically it wasn’t one of my animals as I only have two dogs just like the council says I can have (the ones I’m babysitting don’t count towards that number, right?) Anyway, it was my sons dog Miami that made me smile.  For those of you who don’t know Miami, she’s a kelpie crossed with who the hell knows.  She’s huge compared to the Chihuahua that resides in my daughters room and she was a rescue dog.  Also, every one of her emotions shows on her face.  Well, today I was having a very exciting morning hanging out my washing, when I heard a very unusual sound of whooshing air followed by a small yep and her crashing backwards into the child gate that is supposed to keep her out of the bedroom.  I ran inside wondering what had happened, my heart racing just slightly thinking that she must have hurt herself, when I found her sitting with her ears pinned back, her eyes huge and a very sad face indeed, the air thick with the distinctive smell of Ventolin and a canister with a very large tooth hole in it.
But the upside was that her breathing was crystal clear after that.  And maybe her habit of chewing everything in sight may be cured for a while. Also after I stopped laughing at the expression on her face she did get a very big hug and then sidestepped the offending Ventolin canister as if it were the enemy.

So like I said.  The happiness may not always be a huge life altering moment, but just a minute in an otherwise very ordinary day.  But it was there.  And I for one am certainly glad I was there to see it.

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