I am sharing that I do completely resonate with this truth written here by Eckhart Tolle. Please do read this, I would be so glad, as I am unresolved in some further grief adding to my story below, and would like some support .. In 1974 I was blessed to have two wonderful Shih Tzu dogs, Bim and Chas. Bim had the most beautiful golden silky long coat. I loved to groom him. One day a woman in my village offered to trim him ..In my being a new dog custodian I thought this may be normal. ...... This beloved dog was returned to me with all his fur hacked and chopped with kitchen scissors. He changed, having been so humiliated and with loss of dignity, in his personality .. and his fur never grew back .. eight years on when he died, the long silken coat was still gone ..for such a short time before the fur-cut, I would watch the beautiful sight of his long fur flowing as he walked and ran in the fields .. The memory and sadness so strongly within me, I vowed never to allow this to happen again. It was another twenty-three years before I could have another dog .. at last, in 2010 another Shih Tzu, so identical to Chas came to my life. To care for him and groom him has been a wonderful therapy for me. Except on his face for the eyes to see, and his tummy for him to be clean, not one hair was cut. After his walks, his legs and paws showered, the daily norm. We all have a love for certain things .. I had joy to see Chazzie, now 4 years old, in his full, glorious coat. Almost all other Shih Tzus are puppy-cut, denying them their proper coat. In my view, a tragedy ..I see sadness in all their eyes .. In needing to have a face and tummy trim for Chazzie, and unable to drive to usual place for this, I took him very near to me, to grooming at a kennels .. making very clear verbally and in writing what I needed ..even telling them my story of the past, and never wanting a short cut ..I believed he would be washed, combed as his grooming .. Chazzie came out with, yes, his face neatly done ... but his legs and paws cut with a razor tool close to his skin .. no fur left, his nails all showing, looking like a terrier. All the fur under his tail, his baggytrousers down the back legs was cut. His main coat has been cut along half way up and layered. he looks unimagineably terrible. I cannot forget the look in his eyes looking up at me in the car. I have cried a lot .. now more loss to add to all other loss. Before I took him, I had happily brushed him, thinking how lovely he looked. His coat used to sway and move as he walked and ran .. and now it does not .. no longer the fur to sway and swish, and to feel so softly against me .. to stroke and to brush .. to kiss his soft furry paws .. What you resist, you get .. What you fear, manifests yet my dog has been to two other groomers, and all was well. It seems to me some people do not want to listen, they wish to do things in their way ... The damage caused cannot be reversed. I am having to accept and practice the law of Acceptance and abide by this truth I was given many years ago, yet is often difficult to achieve .. Total acceptance of all that others do and give does set you free.. This story of mine appears miniscule to all that happens in this current world, with many of humankind destroying what others love, in so many different ways .. yet the energy is the same .. lack of care, consideration, compassion ... not listening, not communicating .. and, at times, selfishness and greed .. It was the third local-to-me groomer I had visited that I took my dog to. I had watched how the three of them interacted with my dog .. and by the third and last one not being any better than the others, I should have carried on looking ..especially when the woman who cut his fur said to me Well ..he is only a dog Thank you to those reading this article .. Juliax
Posted on: Tue, 18 Mar 2014 08:26:11 +0000
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