Puppy Love

My friends, have heard this over and over again so if you know me - you probably don't have to read this again. But bare with me, as I try and explain this phenomena to you.

I have two pitbulls; Lemon and Johnny. Lemon is the girl and is possibly a year and a half older than Jo, and up until the day he was brought to our home, she was the apple of the eye of everyone in our family, she was the baby and we all adored her - I mean, we still do, but bare with me - you haven't seen Jo's face yet. Lemon, was a year and a half, and was still called Puppy, because we all babied her and treated her like a baby, even though she was a fully grown pitbull.

The day Lemon set eyes on Jo, who was this small chubby unknown creature to her, she changed. My beautiful female Puppy, once so clumsy and jumping on everyone went absolutely and utterly tense as she saw the little being in front of her. I feel like in that moment her instinct kicked in, because she went tense because she didn't know what to do, she didn't want to move because she would hurt him if she did and when he would try and walk around - she would walk above him, so that she could protect him. She changed completely, she wanted to sleep on him and licked him for hours on end, and Lemon had never ever been put in the position of having to be a mother, or a woman for that matter, but she loved him instantly.

And in that moment, she sort of taught me a bit about love, and so did he. I mean, they didn't know one another, but her instinct was to be whatever he needed from her, a mother, a chew toy, whatever he needed. And he just wanted to be loved, so innocently and purely. For months, nothing else mattered, she would run off and bark and immediately go and check on him. If people touched her, she would be fine, but if anyone tried to touch him, she'd snap. And he'd just lick her nose and go on doing what he was doing.

Jo is now big and clumsy, he still thinks his a puppy so he jumps on me and almost pushes me over. But now? She is his life, she is kind of bored of him now, so she goes about her day, probably playing hard to get, and he stares and stares. He lays down, he looks to see that she is okay. I give them food, he eats his and then finishes hers, she barks, he barks. She runs, he chases her. He just stares and stares at her, always watching her to make sure she's okay. And I actually really do not want to see the day she isn't, and Johnny actually snaps. It's the most spectacular thing, that she use to look after him and now his entire world is focused on her.

I just love their pure instinct to love one another, that to him, she is everything he needed, she use to look after him, then play with him and will eventually be the mother of his children. To her, she went from protecting him, to having the man in her life who would give anything to make sure she is okay. It's the instinct, that it is so natural for them to fall in love and to love, that somehow taught me a bit about love.

I seriously love my dogs, haha