Lets Celebrate our Hairy Mate

If like me you
have been battered from all sides by the recent torrential down pour of
depressing dog media coverage such as dangerous dogs on death row, dog mess
campaigns and children at risk scares you will be feeling somewhat low.  So its time to pick ourselves up and celebrate all things canine.

Lets Celebrate our Hairy Mate

Let’s celebrate our hairy mate

Who keeps us fit and healthy

Who covers us in mud and drool
And stops us being wealthy.

All hail to the tail that never stops

Whose desire is eager to please

The snores, the sighs, the constant patter

And the ticks, the mites and the fleas.

Cheers my dears for those soulful eyes

Always on the scrounge

For chips and cake and even sprouts

That kids drop in the lounge.

And huge respect to all those dogs

Who work for the human good

Who give sight and an ear and who warn

That things aren’t as they should.

A big thumbs up to our working dogs

Who herd and tend our sheep

Who also guard the honest man

Who works hard to earn his keep.

And congratulations to all those mutts

Who bring a smile upon the face

Of children left without a home

And the elderly misplaced.

And last of all let's raise a bowl

To those who help the hound

Give yourself a belly rub

And big cheers all around.

Rosie Barclay
Clinical Animal Behaviourist and rubbish poet.