She Is Art

Helping K9s.com our new website inspired by Skye and the plight of dogs everywhere
and, as of August 23, the blog:
Natural K9 Training - an exploration

The adventure and voyage with her only lasted 7 intense months. I am changed, and the course of my life has changed. And I am her - not separate - in the deepest heart of hearts. In essence, she will go with me to any manifest world. I had always known her and I always will. There is no time (there) where I am her.


About Skye, from my facebook album: What is art?

♥ She IS Art - sculpted and painted by nature and imbued with a big spirit by creation itself.
She IS Art - no point really trying to describe it - she is a delight to behold....beautiful, present, playful, regal, happy, alert, with such elegance in movement, with determination & focus, loyalty in doing her job - independent yet open to adjustment & contact - slowly giving her trust and turning into a love bug.
she raises your spirits with her magnificent presence just being who she is from her essence...a transmitter of divine vibration.
maybe there are other dogs like this - maybe there is one such special dog for everyone that can have such an effect on someone. maybe i was just ready to see, maybe she really is that special, maybe it was reawakening past live connection. who knows...
...wish you could have seen her fly through the meadow, studying a situation, try to play with a cow, or teach stormy how to play or wag her tail or....
may you be blessed with an encounter such as this so when you hear someone say "it's just a dog" or "just a drum" or "just a promise" or "just a weed" - you know that they "just don't understand". not yet anyway...you've got to be open to the magic, willing to go through the portal into a different world, be amazed, accept what you find there, give it your full attention...allow your heart to be broken once again....humbled, still and awed - and be changed - ART.

Little did I know it was to change my life, or - better said, change me. Even at the time I kept having the sense and visual of walking through a long tunnel with her. At some point towards the end there was an acute awareness of possible futures. I know I am different. There was a leveling up and integrating on a feeling level with the rest of  "it" - and I am seeing people and things with a clarity that is mostly humbling and compassionate - and also seeing the extent of this all - with a peaceful silence - and at the same time the energy to action. At the time of this writing, she's been gone to a new home for 4 months,  which seems so much longer, and still  the tears come every day. I look at it as having fostered her and I know she got a good foundation to be where is is now. She had the key to something in my heart, or my very self, and I stepped through. There is something about dogs in relation to humans which is amazing. The exploration has only started.

Please take a look at  Helping K9s.com  and  Helping K9s Blog on blogspot. That is where this story will continue, even though Skye is in her new home.Unless you have been there, you won't understand that she is, has been, and always will in my heart. There really is a non separation.<3 ...and I still miss her too. 
I have registered to become a dog trainer, and am in discussion of whether or no to start a non profit. 

The only lasting beauty is the beauty of the heart.
Rumi

Dog magic - be open to be changed

How lucky to have met her - not just a dog, but a way a perfect match for what was needed, a magnificent being with a purpose.
She's been gone for 3 1/2 weeks now,  which seems so much longer, and still  the tears come every day. During the last month or so with us, and after about 6 1/2 months, she was starting to come when called - just because.  She would turn around on "this way" and she'd been following me everywhere. Neither driven by food, petting or a desire to please, something else made her tick and something else had started to operate here. She was starting to come just because I said so. She had to be won over, convinced I deserved it. She was turning into a bit of a love-bug too. I was looking forward to the next phase of training. And just then...she had to go to a new family. It's along story. Luckily she really seemed to like kids and will have a kid friend in her new home. The woman seems nice, really wanted her and is also very busy. The training she had here may be the only one she'll get, but she won't have to be an outside dog anymore.

It was a profound experience to get to know her. It was intense, it feels like a lifetime went by in just over 6 months, and it was a transformative, life-changing experience. She catalyzed something in me. A bubble burst.

Curious, getting to know her and falling in love, loving with an open heart, in pure delight watching her move, so much deep joy, wanting to do what was best for her, having to go through what for me were physical extremes, recognizing I had known her before and always will - somewhere along the process, leveling up occurred, resulting in being able to "see" better, people and their motives and limitations, where they are stuck, the state of the world, it's hard to explain. I learned so much in many ways about her, dogs, people, myself and the entire world of dogs, including their plight and suffering.

What advise do I have for future dog owners?
Inform yourself about what it will take for you and other members of your household to take on a dog. Decide what type of dog is right for you and your family. And once you say yes to adopting the animal, stick with it. Then have patience, spend time, much time, observe, get to know this being now living with you. Use Natural Dog Training. Be consistent all the time. Most of all, have, build and feel trust and respect for your dog. Discover what kind of training works best for your new companion. Have patience. Observe, sense, feel the energies involved. Find out the proper cuddle times, get her/him to relax and enjoy your hands on the body. Give guidance, correct instantly - stay calm - surrounding emotional and energetic states will get picked up and acted out by your dog.  Find many ways to socialize him/her. Feed them good food, the healthiest you can offer.Take care of their medical needs.  Find out what works best for them in training. Respect them and their intelligence.
Walk with them, take them places, channel energy or go slow, reassure with the tone of your voice. Allow them to do dog things, allow them to be dog-happy.  No pity or sentimentality. No rewarding unwanted behavior. Open your heart, be amazed, touched, surprised and allow the delight and joy. Get help promptly if needed -  spend more time - and take lots of pictures.
Did I say use Natural Dog Training methods :)

With deep gratitude, and with her essence alive in my inner heart forever - this human self here still misses her.

Have a great life.

For those who say "It's just a dog",  I say - ya, you'd probably say it was just a commitment, it's just a promise, it is just love, it's just a human, it's just the planet - and: you just don't understand.

She is beautiful - and strong

...and she does not really want to run away - it's more like:"...we're running together, why are you such a drag?" I've been reading a lot about Huskies lately....

Oh, I am still looking for a bike.......!!!!!!!! It does not have to be a fancy bike with gears and such, in fact it needs to have back pedal brakes, one that works well enough to drive up and down the road a bit with one hand on the handle bar and holding the leash with another - Because I am a real drag when taking her out, I never could run fast or much....

Yesterday afternoon we had walked and played and played some more,a little off leash even. After putting her back on the porch (leached up), where she very contentedly shewed on a bone for a while, Skye became active again...barking even...looking towards the back of the property. I checked it for deer, none. But she would not quiet down in the usual way...so I took her out again - on a leach. In a few minutes, we had meandered to be back of the property and she was going for the corner...there is a fence there, but one that any dog can walk under. And then I saw them - 3 wild pigs, one of them a boar. I guess you call them boars regardless of sex. Skye did too, and she was gone to the other side of the fence in a flash...took all my strength to hold her there and get her to come back. The pigs had run off in the other direction.

Whew...I did not know we had wild pigs to deal with too...just the usual little critters, deer and koyotes.
Without having been leached up - she'd have been gone - run chasing pigs...unsure if she'd find her way back...though 3 wild pigs would have been a lot to deal with too.