Patches the Magical Dog

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. 

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