13/02/2025
I suspect there’s a few of us who are grateful for their dogs on some of the tough days.
“The best therapist has fur and four legs” ❤️
🐾 A short story about how farm dogs have helped boost Laura Sutton’s mental health.
“As a farmer I often get asked “how do i get through long hour days, weeks even months with no human interaction?”
And the answer for me, like I’m sure most people in agriculture is always our dogs. Having worked many times far from home and civilisation too for that matter my working dogs have always kept me going and been by my side.
Days out in the fields or cooped up in the sheds makes fighting mental health and loneliness a tough battle many farmers face.
Yet when we look round not far in sight, you’ll find our working dogs, tucked up in straw, sat on the quad bike ready for work, in the tractor catching some z’s or even right by our feet.
A companion that helps me more than they’ll ever know and for that I’m thankful everyday. My dogs haven’t only kept me company on days where I lose sight of myself but have saved my life more than I can count, and for that I am forever in their debt.
They rely on me daily for love and leadership just as I rely on them as well.
Playing such a vital role for me and my job in so many different ways that I couldn’t achieve what I do without them.
With each sunrise brings a new day of hard work and challenges that I know they’ll help me get through whether that be Lexi or Mae they make sure I know they are there to help and forever trying to please me.
I once read a quote that said “the best therapist has fur and 4 legs” and I’d never read something to be so true.
Cold winter mornings, getting up and knowing they’ll be going through all these days with me, helps me get through.
Like best friends they listen to me when there’s no one around to hear, they are loving and dependable always at the right time and they work hard as a team to help me get my job done.
This also includes the dogs that keep farmers company through harvest and silage in the tractor, the ones that get farmers out of bed and on walks, the ones that do not work but still keep you company when you just need someone there.
They’re not just workers, they’re part of the team and the family. So here’s a thank you to all our furry companions!”
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