{"id":10676,"date":"2009-02-04T06:00:12","date_gmt":"2009-02-04T11:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/?p=10676"},"modified":"2009-02-04T10:59:21","modified_gmt":"2009-02-04T15:59:21","slug":"danis-dog-ally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/daily-astrology\/danis-dog-ally\/","title":{"rendered":"Dani’s dog Ally"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"Ally
Ally and Dani, friends forever. Today is Ally\u0432\u0402\u2122s last day, after 11 and a half years of all love. She and her sassy attitude will be greatly missed. Photo by Dani Voirin.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Dear Friend and Reader:<\/p>\n

I met Ally when I went to Chicago to see Dani (Danielle Voirin, our Paris-based photo editor) last spring. Ally lives with Dani’s mom and her mom’s husband. I saw tomorrow’s daily photo come through with news that she was going to be euthanized Wednesday morning. Dani has been friends with Ally for many years, and had I not met them together, I would felt like I had really missed something.<\/p>\n

Ally lives with her family in an impeccably neat house that you could describe with one word: Americana. The house is a tribute to Middle America. Everything is absolutely neat and under control, like a Sears showroom. Dani’s family is low-key and friendly. There is an atmosphere of well-composed normalcy. We had steak and potatoes for dinner.<\/p>\n

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Then set against this backdrop there’s Ally. Weighing in at about two kilos, she is the strongest presence anywhere nearby. There are dogs that can control a household, and she is one. The thing you notice about her first is how alert she is, and how she holds the tension of her mind in her whole body, which seems to be balanced on springs.<\/p>\n

Then you notice the haircut. It’s extremely stylish, but she overpowers it.<\/p>\n

She talks. I have never heard a dog make a wider diversity of sounds, which sounded like a morph between human and canine speech in some odd alien dialect that you think you can understand. I tried to record some of this on my digital recorder — but when I clicked record she decided it was time to not talk so much. She could not have been a more interesting character if George Lucas had invented her up in his writing attic; more likely, sci-fi filmmakers create characters based on critters with this kind of ambiance.<\/p>\n

There is no subject on which she lacks an opinion, particularly food. Her favorite snack is venison jerky, which in my limited experience she simply would eat until you stopped feeding it to her.<\/p>\n

Personally I feel that dogs ground the heart energy of the planet. All they want to do is love and serve. They need to feel needed, and they remind us that we need to feel needed. They will work to have a place in a household, and they remind humans that we are pack animals who are best suited to sleep in a puppy pile.<\/p>\n

Ally, I have a feeling we shall meet again.<\/p>\n

Love to you, Dani.<\/p>\n

\"Eric<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Dear Friend and Reader: I met Ally when I went to Chicago to see Dani (Danielle Voirin, our Paris-based photo editor) last spring. Ally lives with Dani’s mom and her mom’s husband. I saw tomorrow’s daily photo come through with news that she was going to be euthanized Wednesday morning. Dani has been friends with … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":17,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"generate_page_header":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[36,991,990,993,52,992,949,117],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10676"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/17"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10676\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/planetwaves.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}