Welcome to Starwood Dalmatians
This site is dedicated to the loving memory of
BIS/BISS/AM/CAN/INT Ch. Starwood’s Pride of Atlantis (Deacon)
3/7/97-8/26/08.
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“If Dog’s Prayers Were Answered Bones Would Rain
From The Sky”
By Suzanne Clothier
There is a cycle of love and death that shapes the lives of those who choose to travel in the company of animals. It is a cycle unlike any other. To those who have never lived through its turnings or walked its rocky path, our willingness to give our hearts with full knowledge that they will be broken seems incomprehensible. Only we know how small a price we pay for what we receive; our grief, no matter how powerful it may be, is an insufficient measure of the joy we have been given. Writing in his essay, “The Once Again Prince”, animal lover and gifted writer Irving Townsend summed it up: “We who choose to surround ourselves with lives even more temporary than our own live within a fragile circle easily and often breached. Unable to accept its awful gaps, we still would live no other way. We cherish memory as the only certain immortality, never fully understanding the necessary plan.” It is a fragile circle. But it goes round and round without end.