My name is "Thea" (เตี้ย) สวนแก้ว จอมบึง ฯ

Animals are sentient beings that have feeling, love, hungry, suffering and emotion like human beings. One of them, a dog, is named that honest ones because it is the best and the closest friend of human beings. Moreover, it can help healing our mind’s stress or relief as a doctor dog as well.

This is relationship between dogs and men since the past to the present time. When I was a boy, I raised dogs and I felt it’s love without a doubt anymore. Love of a dog is the pure love that nothing is hided inside but love of man has many meanings. The love begins from its character and personality then it begins from relation and becomes familiar with each other.

The love begins from touching by hands, giving foods every day so it can follow me everywhere. When I went to the field of rice it led me and sometimes it warned me that what would be happening and who was coming. It can remember its own name when I call it so I love it very much. It seems exiting when we call it too. Now there are dogs in the big cities around the world are being raised because that human beings get stress and want a friend. In the cities men are living on economics system and lifestyle depends on money and need things.

Each day men must work hard and have a hard work without making a friend, so life is full of loneliness and pressure. Their minds are asking for someone to be a friend. But nobody cares other, nobody wants marry to then the dog becomes popular and is raised for relieving loneliness. Therefore, the dog is raised at everywhere in the world for example America, China, Japan and Thailand.

“Dog as a doctor” yes, I do agree this because I known well when I studied in the secondary school I was too tired and hungry in evening. When I came back to my cottage it run into me and jumped up my legs and cried out with exiting. It made me fleshy and happily very much. I felt very stress but my dog healed me then I can smile and got recovered.

People who live in the city and have limited place they cannot live with a mate. But they can raise and have a dog or small dog as a friend. The dog likes a doctor that it can cure men’s diseases. Most of houses have to have a dog as a member of family.

Once I stayed in Suankaew Dharma practice Center at Jombueng, Rachaburi province, where there were many dogs. Those dogs that I fed them some food in the morning, one of them was an outstanding dog that was named “Thea”, it looked lovely and friendly too much. It was welcome all of people so I liked it and I raised it. The characters of dog were barking and protection their places. With the special ability of dogs they were raised as the watching dogs.

Generally, whenever we go any places where we never go we will be fear a dog it is just barking. So that policemen have to raise for many advantages for example, searching the drug, chasing a thief and finding a bomb. Another one it can show their talents, show special skills for entertainment. The famous dog is the Bhumipola King’s dog “Thongdaeng” that is very much honest and too clever.

Therefore, I believe that men have love and binding to a dog since the poor to the rich. The dog is an animal and can become the permanent friend to human beings. The dog’s charm is love and honest then there are many people taking it as a media of Dharma. The beloved dog does not bite the owner, it loves its child even if there is a dozen, it is as a monitor, it is able to train, it can show its talents. It can be the best friend of men, it is like a doctor.

When we touch its head and speak to it, it can respond me by waving the tail, contact eye, crying out and earring down. There are the natural characters of a dog that are the closest living things for human beings but still there is some part of the world taking a dog to be food. They kill them for food without compassion and loving-kindness as being things of the world with us. It is pity! and sad!

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