All Good Dogs Go to Heaven--And All Dogs Are Good

Passing Softly into the Night

Arrow the Perro 

2004-2017

I Kept Expecting a Miracle

I kept expecting a miracle... 

Though perhaps the miracle is to be loved

And then loosened into the greater love

And to go out on a river of tears~fully lived, fully loved, fully ready to be loosened.

Lee Bryant

Place where the Dogs are Loosened

'Dogs’ lives are too short. Their only fault, really.'

Agnes Sligh Turnbull

Me and My Arrow

The Con Man and the Dumpster Dog

Arrow found his way to my son when Sean was a homesick 17 year old exchange student living in Guanajuato, Mexico. Sean, away from home for the first time in another country, was lonely and missing having a sense of home so he found a way to create it. He got a dog.

Now that's the truth of the matter, but that's not the story Sean told us almost 14 years ago. No, the story he told was more heart-wrenching and dramatic.

When I first saw Arrow the Perro on a webcam I told Sean, 'You'd better find a home for that dog in Mexico. If you bring him back he's going straight to the pound!'

Sean, my little con man who knew his mother well just smiled and said, 'I'll take my chances on you.' He went on to say, 'I found a litter of pups in a dumpster and I tried to turn them in to the local shelter. They were full. But they said if I was willing to take one of the pups, they'd take the other two, so what could I do?'

So Arrow the Perro came home to live with us, becoming my dog while Sean went off to college and then on to adult life. 

It was much later--only after it became clear Arrow was going to be our forever dog despite eating Sean's bed and my jewelry; taking nips out of a few friends behinds; and generally being harder to train than our other soft-mouthed, Ginger-dog--that the truth came out.

'Oh Mom,' Sean confessed with a laugh, 'That was just a story I made up. I was lonely and I went to a vet's office where a friend got a pup.'

And there it is--home is where the dog is--and even young con men living far away from home and family can create a home with the comfort of a dog. 

Thanks to my little con man, I had a full-time companion who didn't leave my side for almost 14 years--unless I left him. He never tired of my company.

'There is nothing truer in this world than the love of a good dog.'

Mira

A dog is grateful for what is--which I am finding to be the soundest kind of wisdom and very good theology.

Carrie Newcomer

Bright-Eyed and Basenji-Tailed

'Dogs are often happier than men simply because the simplest things are the greatest things for them!'

Mehmet Murat Ildan

'The greatest pleasure of a dog is that you may make a fool of yourself with him and not only will he not scold you, but he will make a fool of himself too.'

Samuel Butler

'You can usually tell a man is good if he has a dog who loves him.'

W. Bruce Cameron

'If your dog doesn’t like someone you probably shouldn’t, either.'

Unknown

The last walk together

We're all just walking each other home

'Many of the qualities that come so effortlessly to dogs—loyalty, devotion, selflessness, unflagging optimism, unqualified love—can be elusive to humans.'

John Grogan

'Blessed is the person who has earned the love of an old dog.'

Sidney Jeanne Seward 

'I love a dog. He does nothing for political reasons.'

Will Rogers

'Dogs lead a nice life. You never see a dog with a wristwatch.'

George Carlin

RIP

💓Arrow the Perro

💙My Gringo Dingo

💚My Optimistic Opportunist 

💛My dog with the question mark of a tail

💗My Dog

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For more than 35 years, Susan Meyerott has been helping people lighten up and step over invisible barriers to change one step at a time. She speaks to your heart, puts you at ease, and makes letting go and moving forward with life easier than ever before.


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