My Shadow

There is saying in Buddhist studies that there is no single animal or living being who was not our parents once. Whether that is true or not but the way we treat animals really affects the way they behave.

The animals, especially dogs born in Australia or any other countries where people have habit of keeping pet are really lucky. People spent lots of money raising animal, though the count won't excess 2 or 3. People treat pet equal to human, in terms of diet, health and shelter. They keep any animals as pet, such as cat, snake, pig and dogs, among which the later one is popular.

People don't treat dogs with junk, left over food like some one the Asian countries do. I was talking once to myself "that some of the animals born to people here are more fortunate than people in some other countries". Once I even read in news headline "Kaula died after two emergency surgery".

The dog pictured is pet to my house owner with another one. Since the other dog, is little bit close to owner as he is scared of Thunder storms, and sleeps in owner's room, this dog comes with me to sleep. Not only that, he would follow me to everywhere I go and my owner named him as shadow. He also try to be so protective of me by sleeping at my door facing outside and he would wake me up morning by hitting his tail on my door.

Now I also feel like he understands what I tells him. He would obey what I say. So if we treat them like what we want them to be, they can be one.