September 08th, 2025

It is so much more rewarding, satisfying, fulfilling with goodness, to have an animal relax under your touch rather than cower in fear. Animal abuse is incomprehensible to me. It is sadistic in a bad way. and personally I believe there are good ways to be sadistic and life is better pursuing those routes. People want pain but there is no reason or instinct strong enough to torture animals for that pain. 

I've been taking care of dogs for the last year and I've had the love of putting animals to sleep with my touch, feeling them relax and enjoy my petting. I've had adult and senior dogs show their belly to me, which is so heartwarming because that tendency typically fades with age, but can come out with trust and love. 

I truly love dogs because I connected with them as a child, or maybe I connected with them because I love them. I have a photograph of me at 3 jumping and grinning and playing with one of my grandma's dachshunds, and I actually remember that pure joy of jumping around with a lovey dog playing with his toy. I feel that glee with the dogs I walk too, when it's rainy outside and we play indoors to finish our time together. I love feeling my feelings and joy is something so fundamental to humanity it is something that makes life better, like good food and fresh water. We need it to live and thrive. Everyone should get to feel this feeling.