Mickey's Musings

Well, one day that pup became an oldie, and when the time came that those old joints could hardly move any more - death finally came and took that old faithful pet away from the man .
Seasons passed, and one night the old man took leave of his old body too. He started his journey on a pathway that was filled with light, where his feet seemed to move with ease again.

A little way up and he was overcome with ecstatic joy when he saw an animal sitting there waiting, and realised that it was his old dog!! The dog was young again in form and they recognized each other. The dog had waited on the road to greet his master, and shone with love for the man!!
They fell into each other's loving embrace (as a dog embraces) and happily strolled together again, found again.

Along the path, they came across a gleaming archway, where underneath stood majestically, a diamond studded gate. That gate opened, and what looked like a cloud in the shape of a man in a hooded robe emerged ........

"Come into these gates, you have reached heaven" said the spirit.
"Er....oh....I am entering into heaven?" he asked, "my dog is here with me, we would love to come in."

"You may enter, but this is not the place for a dog - they cannot come through these gates, only you may enter"

The man thought hard, deeply perplexed and confused...but looked down at his faithful pal and replied "I think I'll keep walking, I can't leave my pup"

They continued further on up the road, now a little saddened by the experience back at the beautiful gates.

Then, they eventually saw an old rickety wooden gate, overgrown grass surrounded it, and with...well it looked like an old farmer, chewing on a straw and stroking his hairy chin. "Hey there wanderers," said the grey old farmer "come on in, this is heaven you have come to"

"But....." said the man, again somewhat confused "......the last place we came to had gleaming gates, golden arches, and the spirit at the gate said THAT was heaven also....... but they wouldn't let my faithful dog in through the gates"

"Well fellow, your dog is welcome in here, in fact we want that you enter into this place and be free to play and roam, together"
"...but you are lucky you didn't go through those other gates, that was hell".

"But it looked so incredible, and I wanted to go in - except not without my trusty friend here" he responded incredulously.

The man pulled the straw from his mouth; "No place that doesn't allow you to come with your dog could be Heaven"