"My intent with my pet is…."
It’s been said that how you relate with your pet is how you relate with the world. Starting on October 1, 2010, Intent.com wants you to join "30 Days Of Intents With Pets," where all you are invited to share your intentions on becoming a more conscious pet-owner and deepening your bond with your animal companion.
What are your intents with your p
ets? Here are some examples of pet-related intents:
- "My intent with my pet is to spend more quality time together."
– "My intent with my puppy is to be patient with his potty-training."
– "My intent with my pet is to keep educating myself on how to be a good cat owner."
– "My intent is to observe and emulate my pet’s ability to show unconditional love to those he cares for."
In addition to celebrating our animal companions, Gotham Chopra also invites you to share your stories about your pets in conjunction with the launch of his book co-authored with Deepak Chopra "Walking Wisdom: Three Generations, Two Dogs, and the Search For a Happy Life."
Join the Walking Wisdom Facebook page to share pictures, stories and connect with other conscious pet-owners about your four-legged best friend.
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Stories From Other Pet-Owners
A true story about a dog who saved his owner’s life from frank christopher, originally posted on the Walking Wisdom Facebook page:
This is my most very special Ben, who saved Susan from Cancer. He is no longer with us, but in the hands of God.
He was the alpha-male of his litter and as such always carried an attitude of confidence secure in his own image and never submissive except to his Dad, me. He live
d his youth in Corona del Mar and had as his best friends a male Westi, and …two females a Dalmatian and Vizsla. To this day the parents of the Westi say he thinks he is a Lab.
It was his good fortune to be taught how to swim and body surf in the waves off Butterfly Beach by a local beach dog, who we never were able to find out about, while we were staying at the Biltmore in Santa Barbara. The two of them met on the beach, where they made instant friends and spent the next four hours swimming, riding waves and running together on that wonderful beach.
He spent the next years traveling between CDM and Sun Valley and finally La Quinta and Jackson Hole. When he was 9 he started behaving strangely, he moved from sleeping on my side of the bed to Susan’s and often would lie in the sphinx position staring at her for hours. Then would come over and lay his head on her chest, pushing hard down upon it. This went on for months until we took him to our Vet. Who proceeded to tell us nothing was wrong with him and perhaps we should look at Susan.
After every scan and test available nothing, MRI‘s and the like, nothing. Finally we decided to go up to the Newport Beach and have our surgeon friend do a biopsy. He had been practicing for 30 years and said, “don’t worry it’s not cancer”. You can guess the answer. So after a double mastectomy, we were to discover she had a 4.5 cm tumor which had stayed contained to the duct. The oncologist said Susan’s case represent less than 1% of the cases he saw, we owed Ben and his persistence to saving her life.
After all this, his behavior went back to normal but one thing had changed, he was now Susan’s boy, and the bond they shared was very special. Some years later at age 13-½, he was struggling to get up and down and I knew his time was limited here on earth with us. As you may know, I also had Buffy, my female Lab who suffered with him as he began to fail, was a true companion to him and nurse maid to him the last two years, she was 5 years younger. On that day Susan and I knew it was his time, we asked our Vet. To come over to the house, I cradled him in my arms, Buffy and Susan at my side, we were eye to eye and nose to nose. When the needle went in his arm surprisingly Buffy left the room and was out of sight. When he took his last breath and his heart stopped, she came back and laid down beside him and rested her head on my lap and his side. A lot of tears that morning, and a very emotional event to go through, but I wouldn’t of had it any other way. He was a special boy and will always be carried in my heart and missed.
To read more stories from other pet owners or to share your own pictures and stories of your dog, visit the Walking Wisdom Facebook page here.
About the Book (Available in bookstores October 15, 2010)
If it wasn’t for dogs, some people would never go for a walk. –anonymous
Gotham Chopra considers himself a pretty average guy. He devours pizza, lives and dies by his hometown teams, and watches Kung Fu Panda with his son–daily. But his childhood wasn’t quite so average. Growing up, Gotham was exposed to the deepest reservoirs of knowledge that his famous father, Deepak, could find; his childhood was part spiritual, part scientific, and totally unique. Now a newly minted father himself, he’s contemplating the influences he wants to draw on for his own son. The first was no surprise: his father. The second was unexpected: his dogs.
Gotham and Deepak’s message may seem simple, but therein lies its brilliance. Heartfelt, endearing, and above all down to earth, Walking Wisdom: Three Generations, Two Dogs, and the Search for a Happy Life offers readers both enlightenment and comfort, with a little bit of mayhem thrown in for good measure. (Description from Amazon.com)
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