a big LOVE for a small FRIEND

We have lots of pets ever since I was a child…but all of them are dogs…there is black, brown, white and  two colors. We have small dogs, big dogs that when he sit, he is as tall as a grown up child; but they we’re really amazing…they we’re just like a stress reliever…as good as a stress ball…maybe that’s why they we’re called “man’s best friend” because they we’re a great companion, a best friend, a brother, a sister or even a lover…but are dogs are the only man’s best friend? For me a big NO…3years ago I owned a pet name dodi, he is an Abyssinian guinea pig…I was so excited when my brother gave it to me…I first said “ay ang cute!!”  then in a glimpse it change everything, I wake up early just to feed him, I go to market just to buy cucumber and carrots that I didn’t do before…then I realize I became responsible, responsible to the fact that I do the things that I didn't do before, I clean up our house just to make sure that dodi won’t get any dirt from the floor, responsible to gather the things he need and keep it in a safe place…I took care of him as if he was my child…I researched the things that he need and studied it to know the things that are good and not for him…I feel I’m obsess at him…as if he was my boyfriend..then years past…my brother told “bakit kaya hindi natin ihanap ng partner si dodi” then I think of it maybe he’s right maybe we should get a partner for dodi… that day we met dinky an albino guinea pig…at first she’s so hard to handle but still I gave more patience to her and after a month of waiting, dodi became a guinea daddy…but after a week I notice that two of the baby guinea pigs are sick…so I place them in a cage where they can feel relax…but after a day they died…so sad that I didn’t  do anything just to survive them…so to become at ease of what happen I gave the other baby guinea pigs to my friends, because I’m afraid that I may not give them the attention they need… but it is worth it, I began to see that  dodi likes me too…he follows me everywhere I go…when I call his name,  he’ll come over…that’s the day that I realize that dodi is so sweet, he start to mumble every time he hears me coming, he follows me when he thinks its eating time, and one thing I miss is when he step on my feet just to get notice…when there are days that I’m sad, I just looked up on him…then all my worries are gone…that’s when I think that he don’t want me to look sad…November 2012 I notice that dodi is not feeling well I began to worry that he didn’t eat his favorite carrots, so I took him to the vet the next day; but I’m super disappointed that the doctor told me that he can’t do anything just to ease dodi’s pain…so we went home but when I look to dodi he is calm, he just lay on my arms and trying to tell me “don’t worry, I’m ok”…I gave his favorite cucumber and cut it into pieces then he eat…I can’t go because of him, I cry because of him, I get sad because of him, I talk to him as if he’ll understand me; I tell him “I’m ok dodi go to sleep” but then he looked up to me telling me that he don’t wants to live me alone..i hold him, I hug him, that’s the day that I really can’t feel his heartbeat…it stop. I cried, I simply cried. so I decided to go…because I feel that if I’m there, dodi will still push himself to stay even if he can’t…then one day my mother told me “dodi is gone”…I’m happy but then I’m sad…happy because he will not suffer for too long…sad because I lost a friend, a best friend, a companion, a brother and a lover…so to all my future readers love your pets as is they where your lover, give them the attention that they need and don’t be shy to talk to them and tell them how you really love them :>