Developing Trust......On The Winding Path to Dog Whispering

Golden times are coming for you

for being golden when you’re blue,

for being patient and waiting there,

for quietly keeping the faith

as you share

the last 12 weeks of ‘unsettling times’,

when it felt like, through and through,

something was undoing you.

But you kept on caring

and declaring

all will be well, given time

as we relinquish what no longer suits

and wait with care,

and less ‘going’ too,

staying home to be with you.

And come there would be

some ‘settling down’,

when now and then I’d leave the town

and do an errand without you,

to develop more trust

that I’d come through

and you and I would whisper to each other

“I’ll come back, I won’t be long”.

“I’ll wait for you, I’ll do my best”,

we will pass through these separation tests.

So came the day,

the sun was shining,

I drove away for only a few

hours without you.

Oh joy you played with your favourite toy

and ferreted about behind the plants

and all was well, indeed I am

grateful again,

our calm progress was clearly there

and I came back for us to share

a happy playing time

and a ‘sense of achievement’ that

we came through

the months of us, ‘developing trust’

So everyday, we walk, we play,

we listen to each other

and I pray

we advance in dog whispering and listening

and I feel you will

remember I always do return

and you feel calm and content

and we are blessed with companionship.

(Written on May 18, 2014 with Delta Blue Pansy, for my adopted woolly fella Smiley-Bob)

‘Developing Trust’ can be, and is, quite a long process and we are working through separation anxiety with the help of some patient and caring friends.