The Joy of Pets

 

Today is National Pet Day in the U.S. which focuses on the joy pets add to our lives. I have had many pets in my life, but now I enjoy feeding the sparrows, blue jays, grackles, nuthatches, mourning doves and an occasional woodpecker in our backyard. I’m glad spring is here, and they can add bugs to my meager offerings.

I still think often of Angel, our tuxedo cat, who passed in 2020 at the age of 20. She was a stray adopted by my friend Sandy’s parents until her dad passed and her mom could no longer care for her.

Here she is the first Christmas in our little house.

This picture was taken in 2017 while I was again living with my sister in what had been our grandmother’s, and then my mother’s home.

One of her chief joys was trying on shoes.

Angel always told my sister and I it was time to go to bed. After our evening devotional reading, we always sang “This is the day the Lord has made.” Then Angel would head up the stairs, stopping at the point where the wall blocked the view, and look right at us meowing – like, “Okay, Let’s go.”

Before Angel, there was Shalom whose chief joy was freedom.

She also enjoyed camping …

and napping in the sunshine.

Now I enjoy the dogs of friends.

Klondike was a very active dog who loved swimming and playing ball.

Forever would have been too short

She passed unexpectedly  in 2022…

and Mr. Pocket got a new baby sister, who is now three, and quite a handful I might add. She rules the roost.

Enjoy your day and

“give God the glory for the things He has made.”