Daar is sekerlik nie \u2019n groter vreugde om te aanskou as \u2019n hond wat jou tuis verwelkom nie. Dit laat die vaalste of hartseerste dag verander in een van dankbaarheid oor di\u00e9 onvoorwaardelike liefde en blydskap.<\/p>\n
As kind het ek \u2019n swart Franse poedel gehad, Peppie. Eers toe ek ouer word, het ek besef dat ek hom nog meer aandag moes gee en vertroetel. <\/p>\n
Mettertyd het ek besef ek is \u2019n kat-mens. Ek was nog nooit sonder \u2019n kat nie. My laaste langhaar-kat met die groot blou o\u00eb, Miss Daisy, het ek by Animal Welfare aangeneem. <\/p>\n
Sy was soos die meeste katte, die baas van die huis en het \u2019n besondere persoonlikheid gehad. <\/p>\n
Sy het selfs die oorlede sanger Randall Wicomb \u2013 wat niks van katte gehou het nie \u2013 oorrompel en op sy bors haar l\u00eaplek gekry toe hy by ons tuisgegaan het tydens sy laaste konserte in die Oos-Kaap. Hy was toe reeds baie siek aan kanker. Hy het erken dat Miss Daisy hom gekalmeer en geliefd laat voel het.<\/p>\n
Ongelukkig moes Miss Daisy, na twaalf jaar by my, by haar sussies gaan bly omdat katte nie in ons dorpshuiskompleks toegelaat word nie. My hart is steeds seer en ek verlang na haar. <\/p>\n
Intussen het ek sommer baie lief geword vir honde. My destydse kollega, Janine Lee, het my oortuig om \u2019n hondjie te kry. So het die Maltees, Toffie Fourie, deel geword van my lewe. Parmantige krulstert brakkie, ook gered. Vir vyf jaar lank my bondgenoot tot hy per ongeluk doodgery is. Die verdriet n\u00e1 sy dood was net te erg en ek het besluit: nooit weer nie. <\/p>\n
Maar gaandeweg het ek die nat snoet, opgewondenheid en maat gemis. Dis hoe Fielies Fourie haar intrek by my geneem het. <\/p>\n
Mensig! Wat \u2019n vreugde is dit nie om \u2019n kame-raad te h\u00ea wat jou geheel en al verstaan nie. Wat \u00e1ltyd lus is om te doen waarvoor jy lus het \u2026 van strand toe gaan tot middagslapie, rondry, kuier, of net heeltyd by jou te wees om mee te praat. <\/p>\n
Haar lang wit haartjies moes onlangs geskeer word weens al die seewater en seesandkaperjolle, en daarvan het sy niks gehou nie. Maar die stert en hart is duidelik verbind, want die stert swaai weer jolig. <\/p>\n
Aanraking is so \u2019n uiters belangrike aspek van lewende wesens se bestaan. Sonder aanraking vergaan mens en dier. Hoe troostend is dit nie as iemand oor jou rug vryf, hand vashou of \u2019n skouerdrukkie gee nie. Energie word oorgedra en emosies word opgewek. So is Fielies Fourie vir my \u2019n besondere vriendjie. Altyd in \u2019n goeie bui, kla nooit, is tevrede met die kos, lewenslustig en \u2019n lieflike sin vir humor. <\/p>\n
Nou is dit Kerstyd. Vir my sal \u2019n nat snoet en soentjie van haar die beste geskenk wees. Ek is so dankbaar vir die pelskind wat soveel bring en my hart vol l\u00ea. My grootse wens is dat alle vierpoot kinders hierdie Kerstyd oorlaai sal word met liefde, bederfies en tyd.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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