Entertaining, Educational Stories about dogs and the families who love them.  Purebred or mutt, showdog or showoff, puppy or veteran, dogs love and protect their human pack.  No pet has more loyalty than a dog.  A pet dog will stay with its family no matter what, even if abused or starved!  What other animal will do that? 

All I Ask
by Hope Andrews

We were having a problem getting our 12 year old son to take the responsibility of feeding the family dog.  He loves the dog, sneaks it to bed when he can, etc., but he was more into the computer and play and stuffing his own face than remembering to feed his dog.  Looking for a way to have his son understand that this wasn't just a question of obeying his parents, my husband  reached for pen and paper. First on the top of the page he drew a picture of a dog. The dog had tears coming out of his eyes. Next to the dog was a drawing of two dog bowls which on the front of each bowl read “empty!!”  

Then there was the dog saying, "cry, cry, I’m so hungry, nobody loves me!!  I wish I could feed myself!!" 

Now on with the rest of the story!!  

The dog appears to say "I want to eat all day and night.  I love food.  But I am only fed once a day between four and six p.m.  So you know how much I look forward to my only meal.  I know there are some wonderful foods I would love to eat.  Oh to have such a variety of foods to taste and eat like you have, the smells coming from your plate almost drives me insane. But all I have to look forward to all nite and all day till 6 p.m. is my one bowl of plain dog food.  I don’t even get dessert. But you know, I really only look forward to it because I have to eat it for I will die without it. 

"I love you and always have. I protect you, defend you, sleep under your window when you can’t sneak me into your bed.  I play with you.  I ask only one thing from you. FEED ME so I don’t suffer."

It did the trick!  Now our son understands why we nag him so much about taking care of his dog. 

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