About 7 years ago, I received an interesting phone call from a Fort Lauderdale woman named Beverly who identified herself as “skeptical but desperate.” She’d been given my name and phone number by a friend who’d seen my card somewhere and said she loved her dog enough to have me talk to her even though, she kept repeating, she had doubts. She had made a veterinary appointment for 7 am t o euthanize Boo, an 11 year old Dalmatian with Cushing’s syndrome, a disease that damages both the muscular system and internal organs. She wanted to know if it was the right time. I had never faced the loss of my own dogs with grace and dignity, traumatized each time and thrown into serious depression during a longer than normal mourning process. Suddenly within two weeks, I was called to help two dogs with their transition process and knew this was as much a lesson for me as it was therapeutic to the dogs and their families. I knew that afte...
Enlightenment from Our Animal Companions by Lisa Shaw, Animal Intuitive, R.M.