My dog "Patches" is an animal without malice. He plays and eats with total abandon. I get up late at night just to watch him sleep. He sleeps next to a small clump of sugar canes. I have caught him chewing on the cane roots and stumps. I wonder if he tastes the sweetness of its sugar. His eyes are filled with wonder, love and kindness. I do think that his former owners ill treated him. He still has vestiges of that ill treatment in his heart for sometimes he fears that I will strike him. I have never stuck him, but his memory of some humans is as such. In time, I think that he will forget, his ill treatment I hope. I will do all in my power to erase those memories. He is black and white and brown..brindled. I love this dog very much even though we are new to each other. He is so gentle and sweet, but I know he would defend my life with his life. I can feel it.
I play with him in the days, but it is at night that I watch him. Sometimes he disappears with the inky blackness of the night like a ghost. In the days he can melt into the vegetation then suddenly pop up and surprise me. When he sees me he smells my feet, then he licks them. He cries if I don't play with him. He actually cries. He does not complain to be fed or to get water, but he cries when I do not play with him. I never had a dog like this before or perhaps I was not aware of it. He is so happy when he plays, he could never hurt a child or baby. I suppose there is much I can learn from "Patches". There is so much we humans can learn from nature. One day I truly expect him to revel a great mystery to me.
Ian INC (C) copyright 2012
