Love

Last night, we were disturbed by a lot of muffled sobs and little shrieks. Manong was in Bohol since Saturday AM and I am left with an all-female household.

Poopie and I decided to sneak towards the room of the woof woman to investigate on the cause of all the hullaballoo and found the demented one all scrunched up in her bed and leaking away.

“what’s wrong, manang?” Poopie inquired as she gathered herself beside the sobbing manang.

I too, propped my head on the bed spread and just stared at her.

The culprit--- a yellow energizer labrador named Marley...

After about 3 hours, at around a quarter past 12 midnight, she closed the massive wad of paper, patted dry the final ounces of dripping salty water off her face, unhooked my leash, called on Poopie and Me and gave the both of us a firm hug and a big fat kiss.

“I love you, Aki. I love you, Poopie.” She croaked. Her eyes leaking and her eye bags more profound.

“We love you too, manang” we managed to say almost in unison

Although, we never really got to say it, we knew that she knew what we were saying.

Poopie and I cuddled and snoozed off with manang’s hands dangling from her bed. Her hand clasped with mine.

We snoozed away, just as it should be. Me and Poopie all cuddled up beside our manang. We don’t know how long this will live on, but in her heart, and in our hearts, our bond will live on forever.

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Manang’s note:

Sometimes, we tend to forget the importance of the friendship, love and devotion that our furfriends/ furkids bestow upon us.

I know a lot of you may have had read the book- Marley & Me already and this little review may come in a little late. No matter. I’ll just pour out my two cents and relay how much reading this had gripped me, moved me and managed to make my tear glands work overtime.

Reading about Marley made me think back at the antics that Aki does. In many ways, I find that John Grogan was actually describing Aki and so I found myself warped inside the book- laughing until my side aches and bawling like a baby during the last 4-5 chapters of the book.

I am happy to share that the movie version will be showing very very soon. As a matter of fact, it will hit the movie screens on December 25, 2008 in the US.
We hope all you pups will catch this one. I am especially excited to see how the movie plays out (I hope they do justice to the book- paws… er.. fingers crossed)

To my furbrothers and sisters- Aki, Poopie, Syxx, Jhudora, Cadness, Y.Y., 750, Askalon, Chippy, Batista, Sha-sha, Kim Tzih, Rucci, Prof. Heinz, Ninorta, Cao Cao and Guan Long and to all my beloved dogs in the Rainbow Bridge, I love all of you so much and I am so blessed to have all of you in my life.

Special thanks to The Animal Doctor's Secretary for letting me know about this book.