02/12/2025
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The world feels different now, almost unrecognisable compared to just a few years ago.
Life moves faster, expectations run higher, and everywhere we turn there seems to be more pressure: to achieve, to respond, to keep up.
People carry heavier loads on their shoulders, and with that weight often comes frustrations.
We see it in shorter tempers, less patience, and a growing sense that everyone is just… overwhelmed.
Whilst we know our dogs live with us, we sometimes forget is that our dogs experience this world with us.
They may not understand the news or the deadlines but the constant noise of modern life, the tension they feel it and carry it.
They can’t take a sick day, or change their environment, or step away from the chaos.
Dogs rely on us completely, for stability, for comfort, for a sense of safety.
They absorb our emotions, even the ones we never speak out loud. They feel the pressure of a home and life that’s rushed or overwhelmed.
And yet, despite carrying pieces of our stress, they still meet us with trust. With hope. With loyalty.
They wait for us to notice when they need gentleness, when they’re confused, when they’re anxious. They wait for us to make their world bearable again.
In a world that feels harsher than it used to, maybe the kindest thing we can do, both for ourselves and for them,.is to slow down, breathe, soften, and remember that they’re navigating all of this right beside us.
They depend on us to guide them, to protect them, and to give them the peace that can be so hard to find out there.
If we can’t always make the world better, at least we can make their world better. And sometimes, in doing so, we make our own world a little gentler too.
(.Picture of Lettie my beautiful lurcher and our good friend Hilary)