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25/03/2026

LOVING A DOG
Loving a dog isn't just about choosing the one you like best based on its physical qualities or "breed." Loving a dog also means realizing that you're inviting it to share your life, your home, your space, and that it also has needs and often won't meet your expectations.

Loving a dog means being willing to love it through thick and thin, as a puppy, an adult, or a senior; loving it when it barks and being patient with it because it's trying to tell you something.

Loving it when it chews on the walls and the couch, when it runs around and ignores you because it's expressing its free and playful nature. Taking it to the vet because it's sick or hurt.

Giving it proper food, not "leftovers," but what you can truly offer. Understanding that a dog has likes and dislikes and that what you expected from it may not be compatible with who it really is.

Loving a dog isn't about wanting, wishing, longing, or dreaming.

To love a dog is to understand that you won't just have "a dog," that it's not a thing or property, but a unique individual who coexists and shares life with you, with a will and its own mission to fulfill.

To love a dog is to stop talking about wanting and truly learn to love…

To love a dog is to observe it, take it into account, let it decide, let it grow, let it express itself, let it leave its canine mark on this world.

To love a dog is to recognize that it belongs to a different animal species than yours and, as such, has different and specific needs: like running outdoors, sniffing everything in its path, exploring the world, playing, and meeting other dogs.

It will have fears, insecurities, anger, frustrations, joys, preferences, friendships, sadness, losses, pain, sleepiness, hunger, delight, excitement at waking up next to you every day, gratitude, and love… so much love.

To love a dog is to commit to every day of its life because it will depend on you, and you are all it has.

To love a dog is to be willing to discover and accept the lessons it has come to teach you, because if you love a dog, you already know that it was the dog who orchestrated its journey to you to help you reconnect with life, with the present moment, with the sun, the moon, and the stars, with the plants, the sky, the air, and the mountains, but above all… to help you reconnect with your heart. 🐾💜

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Don"t you want someone to love you THIS MUCH???!!!!

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"That fireworks’ noise and light is disturbing and distressing to animals is well known to most pet owners. Noise phobia in dogs is a well-documented response to fireworks (e.g. Dale et al. 2010).

In a survey from New Zealand, owners reported that 74.4% of companion animals, from horses to small mammals, showed fear responses to fireworks (Gates et al. 2019). Horse owners reported increased running in response to fireworks, often associated with fence-breaking and injury (Gronqvist et al. 2016). Observation of several mammal and bird species in a German zoo before, during and after 6–8 min long firework displays over two evenings showed increased nervousness, movement, withdrawal to indoor areas (Rodewald et al. 2014).

Data from 3 years of weather radar in the Netherlands showed that thousands of birds take flight shortly after fireworks are lit at midnight on New Year’s Eve (Shamoun-Baranes et al. 2011). Hundreds of thousands of birds are disturbed in this way, flushing them from wetlands where they rest. Similar examples are global: in Poland, urban Eurasian Magpies (Pica pica) roost together in larger communal roosts than in ex-urban areas, but roost size sharply and suddenly declines on New Year’s Eve due to fireworks (Karolewski et al. 2014). On Lake Zurich in Switzerland, New Year fireworks can cause a 26–35% drop in swan, goose, and duck numbers overnight, the numbers recovering over 3–10 days (Weggler 2015). At Lake Constance in Germany, a firework display on the 13 September 2010 caused extreme flight reactions in multiple waterbird species, causing over 4000 waterbirds to flee from the area almost immediately. Many waterbird species are in wing-moult at this time of year, so it is significant that even temporarily flightless birds left the area and stayed absent for over 2 days. As Lake Constance is a recognised refuge for moulting waterbirds, this fireworks display has subsequently been banned (Werner 2015). At Beebe, Arkansas, USA, two powerful displays of New Year fireworks in 2011 and 2012 caused the deaths of thousands of Red-winged Blackbirds (Agelaius phoeniceus) that were disturbed from winter roosts at night and, in their flight, collided with each other (Chilson et al. 2012).

Fireworks cause pollution, releasing sulfur dioxide, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, suspended particles, aluminium, manganese etc., in a black smoke of potassium nitrate, charcoal and sulfur (Sijimol and Mohan 2014). The particulate matter released has a profound and immediate negative effect on air quality, but declines rapidly over the next 24 h (Singh et al. 2019). After firework displays, particles released can be five times higher than background levels (Cao et al. 2018). In New Zealand, a steep rise in particulate matter has been reported after fireworks, with much of it coming from small, hand-held sparklers (Rindelaub et al. 2021). Dangi and Bhise (2020) reported multiple respiratory and allergic responses in residents at a site after Diwali celebration. The toxicity of the particulate matter released is high – tests with mice and human cell cultures indicate high inflammatory responses and adverse effects on cells and lung tissue (Hickey et al. 2020). Of particular concern is the presence of the inorganic anion perchlorate (as potassium perchlorate and ammonium perchlorate), which contributes to the explosions and light associated with fireworks (Wu et al. 2011). Perchlorates are water soluble and stable, leaching into water bodies and being taken up by plants after release, and making their way into insects, mammals, amphibians and fishes (reviewed in Sijimol and Mohan 2014). Perchlorate is a major health concern as it inhibits thyroid function in amphibians, reptiles and mammals, decreasing thyroid hormone output – it also has a role in causing reproductive, neurodevelopmental, developmental, immunotoxic, and carcinogenic issues (Utley 2002)."