July 3rd 2010 10:32 am
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DECLARATION OF DEPENDENCE

I am loyal, compassionate and true.
I am your companion, and brave protector.

My job is to make you smile and laugh.
I don't care if I look silly sometimes, because I love to hear your voice smiling with me.

I don't much care for baths, but I pretty much do what you ask with little complaint.
I eat when you say, drink when you say, walk when you say.

But while my brothers, sisters and I are brave, smart and silly, we are really not independent at all.
Many of us have lived on the street, been alone, but we don't want it that way.

We depend on you for our health, happiness, safety.
To keep the burrs from our coats and the oil from our feathers.

We all ask for the privilage of being warm in winter, cool in summer, and protected from the elements and from fear.
We depend on you for everything, and we give you everything in return.