All the furry creatures

 

All the furry creatures we have loved,

have loved us back in such a generous way, sure we feed them and put a roof over their heads but they give us so much more than all that. 

They check on us every single day, they greet us, they don’t ever avoid us or pretend not to see us, they hang out with us whether we’re smelly or not, they share their warmth with us, they protect us, they remind us to get up and keep going every day, they give us head butts whenever we go in for one, they wag their tails at us, they dust off our keyboards, they help us limit our butter intake with their toast licks, they check for vermin up in the trees and under the deck, they do their perimeter checks, they do yoga maneuvers underneath us when we attempt to plank, they plop into our laps when we sit cross-legged on the floor, they zoom around us, they embellish our furniture with their shreddings, they don’t mind our music or messes, they mingle in the space we share, giving and receiving affection is what they model to us humans who have a harder time remembering how to do that.