Foley's Tails From Rainbow Bridge: Elsa and Hailey

After two major friend losses, at least on the mortal side,I have been rudimenting about pets and love.

We shine our love out to the universe like a beacon searching for a heart to accept it. When we find one it completes us. Finding a human to accept your love is difficult, and some people never find one. It must match another person perfectly and often is mistaken leading to heartache.

But pets are different. Their hearts are open to anyone who sends a beacon near it, which is why it's a crime so many of them go unloved in shelters. What the world needs now, is love sweet love, and it is located at the local shelter.

I have talked to many of the first dogs, those wolves who recognized a love beacon, and opened their hearts to it. Dogs were the first to love humans. At the time men and women used one another for the fully physical need for sex. Sometimes the man had a wolf dog, who accepted the woman’s love too, and neither wanted to leave the dog, so they stayed together, bound by their dogs.

They created a family, which is a tradition carried over throughout human life, and it is all thanks for the dogs (and later cats.)

Now, pets are little beacons of love in every loving home.

But there is nothing that burns a soul fiercer than enduring love. That is why pets lives are so short.

This month Elsa from the Tails Around the Ranch blog and Lee from the The Hailey and Zaphod blog# left their family, and friends, let their hearts be caught by the wind, and left many beacons of love, especially their parents.

Elsa was a loving and sweet dog. She began her life in the most unloving circumstances, as a mother dog at a puppy mill. The owner went to the Bridge, and Elsa was rescued. Every dog there had an abnormality, Elsa’s was epilepsy. She was adopted by the best possible family who made sure she took her meds and patiently waited for her to put aside the feral side and become a family pet. When she rediscovered her beacon of love she adored her parents, and they her, until her song ended.

Hailey had a long road to find her beam. She travelled from home to home, and from shelter to shelter, becoming more broken at each stop, until she was rescued from a kill shelter. She too found the perfect home with someone who patiently walked and trained her until, like all shelter dogs who become a family member, the parents were rewarded with all the love Hailey ever had. It would be neurological issues which drove Hailey from her home to the Bridge.

I know both sets of parents will miss the love they felt for these great dogs but when they look to the sky at night they will find that beam still shining from the Bridge down to their homes.