Lesli DeVito : For the LOVE of a DOG

A few weeks ago
we celebrated our
"Doggiversary"...

one year ago, I started off a day of soccer games ,
just like any other Saturday...
and left one my daughter's game with a puppy in my coat!

I never had that "Dog Love"

thing that drives people to say have

their dog be the ring bearer in their wedding

or even sleep at the foot of their bed at night.

Like everyone else, we had our "first child"

"Parker" the beagle

and I loved her, very much in fact

but the swooning stopped and was quickly replaced with patient annoyance

when I gave birth to a real baby

and then a few years later another baby and

then a few years more...a third ...real baby.

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.....so, what changed?
maybe it was his eyes,

Those eyes!

...or the fact that he was so tiny and shivered so much that
I carried him inside my down vest

like a baby Koala...
for weeks!

or maybe it had something to do with the
inevitable fact that my real babies were getting too big

to crawl in my lap and
often too big to even share a sofa with me...

maybe it was his loyalty and unconditional

worship of me

(am I that shallow)

what ever it was

when I fell...

I fell hard.

and I have never looked back.

and now, I GET it!!!

He would DEFINITELY

be ring bearer material!

"Charlie" 30" x 40" acrylic on canvas
SOLD!

My Sweet Charlie

Lesli DeVito