I Am Your Ferret
I am your ferret, and I have a little something I'd like to whisper in your ear. I know that you humans lead busy lives. Some have to work, some have children to raise. It always seems like you are running here and there, often much too fast, often never noticing the truly grand things in life.
Look down at me now, while you sit there at your computer. See the way my dark brown eyes look at yours? They are slightly cloudy now. That comes with age. The gray hairs are beginning to appear.
You smile at me; I see love in your eyes. What do you see in mine? Do you see a spirit? A soul inside, who loves you as no other could in the world? A spirit that would forgive all trespasses of prior wrong doing for just a simple moment of your time? That is all I ask.
To slow down, if even for a few minutes to be with me. So many times you have been saddened by the words you read on that screen, of others of my kind, passing.
Sometimes we die young and oh so quickly, sometimes so suddenly it wrenches your heart out of your throat. Sometimes, we age so slowly before your eyes that you may not even seem to know until the very end, when we look at you with grizzled muzzles and cataract clouded eyes. Still the love is always there, even when we must take that long sleep, to run free in a distant land.
I may not be here tomorrow; I may not be here next week. Someday you will shed the water from your eyes, that humans have when deep grief fills their souls, and you will be angry at yourself that you did not have just "One more day" with me. Because I love you so, your sorrow touches my spirit and grieves me. We have NOW, together.
So come, sit down here next to me on the floor, and look deep into my eyes. What do you see? If you look hard and deep enough we will talk, you and I, heart to heart.
Come to me not as "alpha" or as "trainer" or even "Mom or Dad," come to me as a living soul and stroke my fur and let us look deep into one another's eyes, and talk.
I may tell you something about the fun of running through tunnels, or I may tell you something profound about myself, or even life in general. You decided to have me in your life because you wanted a soul to share such things with. Someone very different from you, and here I am.
I am a ferret, but I am alive. I feel emotion, I feel physical senses, and I can revel in the differences of our spirits and souls. I do not think of you as a "Ferret on two feet" -- I know what you are. You are human, in all your quirkiness, and I love you still.
Now, come sit with me, on the floor. Enter my world, and let time slow down if only for 15 minutes. Look deep into my eyes, and whisper to my ears. Speak with your heart, with your joy and I will know your true self. We may not have tomorrow, and life is oh so very short. -- Love, (on behalf of ferrets everywhere)
- Author Unknown
Beste mensen,
Hierbij wil ik jullie graag informeren dat ik ga beginnen met het samenstellen van het vervolg op Allochtone Viervoeters.
Dit vervolg zal heten "Asielzoekers" en zal 50 verhalen gaan bevatten over honden en katten MAAR OOK andere dieren (fretten, konijnen, varketjes enz) die gered zijn uit een nare situatie in Nederland of daarbuiten, en een nieuw mandje (hokje) hebben gekregen.
Heb je een mooi, ontroerend, aangrijpend, stoer of indrukwekkend verhaal te vertellen over je dier, stuur dit dan met foto naar betty@ho-res.nl natuurlijk zal een deel van de opbrengst van het boek weer aan een goed dierendoel worden besteed.
Ken je mensen met een geadopteerd dier? En nogmaals ook verhalen over ezels, paarden, hangbuikzwijntjes, kippen enz zijn welkom. Stuur ze deze mail dan door ajb.
Op dit moment heb ik al heel veel verhalen van Spaanse honden dus kom op mensen waar blijven de verhalen van de Nederlandse dieren die gered zijn?
Ik zie de verhalen met spanning tegemoet!
Hartelijke groet,
Betty Mercey
www.BettyHeideman.weebly.com
ps inzending van een verhaal garandeert geen plaatsing, wanneer er meer dan 50 verhalen aangeleverd worden, zal er een keuze worden gemaakt om een zo gevarieerd mogelijk boek te krijgen.