Yesterday, we were fortunate to get feel-good help from a Schnoodle.
Ducky’s best friend, Jake, the Schnoodle, stayed with us for a couple hours. So my parents could enjoy the pleasure of watching Ducky and Jake play, we walked the dogs down the street to their house and turned the dogs loose in the backyard.
Ducky and Jake had a blast playing with each other. And we had a blast watching. If you can watch two happy dogs playing and not smile, you have some BIG work to do to get yourself into alignment.
When you see Ducky and Jake together, you’d think they’ve been buddies forever.
They haven’t.
In fact, their first meeting didn’t go well at all.
Ducky was three months old when we brought her home with us. Kathy and Lyn brought Jake to our home to meet Ducky the day after we got her.
We all expected Jake and Ducky to hit it off immediately. Jake is three years old. He loves to play. He gets along with all manner of animals, from other dogs, to cats, to rabbits and birds. He was always gentle with our old 17-year old Springer before she passed.
But Ducky didn’t know anything about Jake. So when he came through our front door with Lyn and Kathy for the first time, Ducky squealed as if she was being tortured to death. If there was an audio dictionary for sound clichés and you looked up, “scream bloody murder,” you’d hear the sound Ducky made.
It was our fault. We didn’t consider that Ducky was so new to our house. Of course a dog charging through the front door enthusiastically would freak her out.
No matter what we did that day, Ducky would have nothing to do with Jake.
Not an auspicious beginning.
If we’d taken that beginning and used it to predict the future, Ducky and Jake wouldn’t have had any more play dates.
But we tried again. This time, we changed the dynamic. We put both dogs on leashes and had them meet out on the street, figuring that Ducky wouldn’t feel like her home was being invaded.
It worked.
Ducky fell in love with Jake. Now they’re crazy about each other.
Dogs teach us so much. Muggins was the best teacher I’ve ever had. Ducky, though young, is doing a pretty good job too.
Every time she gets together with Jake, she reminds me that I can’t look at how things are now and project how they’re going to be in the future. What’s bad now could be great later on.
Abraham-Hicks says that when it seems like you’re stuck, you’re not. Energy is always in motion. You’re never stuck. You just keep recreating the same thing over and over. To move on to something better, you need to change the dynamic, i.e, the thoughts you’re thinking.
I need to keep returning to this truth.
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