❤️ [Little Hunterman] 04: A Loneliness & Friendship Wee
The BIG Word According to Little Hunterman by Hunter Lassal – A Terrier's Fun Take on the Human World: Here comes wee 04 & a new doggie giveaway & Happy Holiday Doggie Wishes
This “wee” is all about a little terrier named Hunter (a real dog), also known as Little Hunterman (the illustrated version). If you're new to the world of Little Hunterman, a great place to start is with INTRO #01: About Little Hunterman, INTRO #02: What's Wee-Mail?, and INTRO #03: Who’s Who in Hunterman-Land? The remaining wees can be sniffed in any order. If you prefer to begin with the first drop, head over to A Wee about Having the Wees and continue by following the links at the bottom of each puddle. You can also see an index here.
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The Big World According to Little Hunterman by Hunter Lassal:
04: A Loneliness & Friendship Wee
One reason why love is important is because it’s so totally terrible to feel lonely.
Doggies are not meant to be alone. Not ever, EVER! Neither, by the way, are illustrated doggies. We are not made for solitude, or empty little beds, or blank sheets of paper.
We need a lot of company and attention.
Yet, at the very beginning, when my Lassal-human came up with my cartoon, there was NO ONE around to talk with!!!! I had no friends. No one cared. Life was dark and hard.
Sure, I had my little rubber duck. I had Flynn from the get-go — but I still felt like there was all this emptiness around me where there should have been a million-trillion friends!
If not more.
Don’t listen to Flynn. He does not know how it feels… He likes being alone. It must be that plastic thing.
And I’m afraid that my need for many friends disappoints him.
He seems to be happy enough with just me around and wonders why I don’t feel the same.
And WHY don’t I feel the same?
I cannot say for sure.
Maybe it is because Flynn mostly sleeps all day. Maybe it is because he is made out of smelly yellow plastic. Maybe it is because he is always just reading books whenever he’s not asleep.
I just know that I need a lot of friends and loved ones around me to be a happy little non-lonely doggie.
However, making friends can be incredibly hard when you are the new dog in town, when you don’t know a single duck, and when you have no clue about the local rules of a place.
It’s all rather unfair, right?
Just when you feel the mostest desperate, things seem the hardest. I never understood the logic of this part of life.
Flynn likes to say that life is totally NOT trying to be logical nor fair.
Maybe he is right.
Flynn has been around for a while.
He knows these things.
Strangely, it does get MUCH easier to find friends the more friends you already have.
It must be some sort of gravitational-thingy.
Also, the more we care about the same things, the easier making friends seems to become.
You know, I love to share my stuff with whoever needs it — even if they don’t really notice that I exist. It makes me happy.
Caring for each other helps all of us!
Sharing can be totally easy, like when my humans give me icky sick-food instead of the good stuff. I’ll gladly share THAT with others.
And sometimes sharing is VERY hard, like when all I have to share is a single yummy croissant.
Once you know what to look for, though, you can find friends in the oddest places and under the strangest circumstances.
Take my Friend Mona, for example.
I first met Friend Mona in a big art-house place while my Lassal-human was checking on flying-construction thingies for Flynn.
Friend Mona lives in a country where everyone eats croissants all the time. She knows of some fantastical croissant-recipes including several yummy doggie-friendly ways to prepare them.
And suddenly, it turns out that Friend Mona is afraid of mice — she keeps seeing them in her huge living room at night after all the humans have left. So I quickly promised to visit her occasionally to keep her place mice-free and now all her friends want to get to know me, too.
See? It’s easy to make friends as long as you care for croissants and mice.
So, now you know!
Love you.
Your bestest BIG doggie friend,
Little (anti-loneliness) Hunterman
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