How adopting a dog helped me find unconditional love

I never had a dog before. I couldn´t see how it would fit in to my busy life. I had numerous questions about how having a dog would affect being able to travel, being spontaneous and not coming home on time or staying out all night. What kind of life would a dog have staying hours alone in an apartment and living in a city? Then life brought me to the south of Spain to finish the nervous breakdown I had started six months previously. 

After a couple of years, circumstances were such that I needed to move out of the city and find a bit more space and light and it was at this time a very dear friend encouraged me to get a dog. I will be indebted to him for that not to mention all the other acts of kindness and support both he and his husband have given me, for the rest of my life. 

He took me to the local animal shelter and there I found Heidi. one of the smallest dogs in a pen of about 15 dogs all barking and looking for attention. She was like the little lost orphan in the playground trying to keep up with all the other big kids. I took her for a short walk up the lane and she trotted calmly along side me. Not having a clue about how to even to look after a dog I too was being led at the same time by my intuition. I fell instantly in love. It makes me feel emotional just thinking about that moment.

Having Heidi with me has taught me so much about love and the instinctive need I have to share my love and care for another. How she did that is simply by giving me her unconditional love and I in return give her mine.