“Lost in Puppydom: Rory Dylan Stephen’s Puppydom”: DYLAN THE WESTIE FILLS YOU IN ON HIS LIFE IN THE LAND BEYOND

DYLAN THE WESTIE FILLS YOU IN ON HIS LIFE IN THE LAND BEYOND

Some of you out there have been asking if Dylan the Westie is managing well in The Land Beyond and if he is returning to earth to continue the fight for justice and the improvement of canine health and dignity particularly for rescue dogs. It is a complicated issue and I best let Dylan the Westie speak on this.

“Readers, I assure you I am doing very well up here in The Land Beyond. I perished in a horrific terrorist explosion just over two years ago.

I am residing in the Canine Sector. It is adjacent to the Russian Orthodox Sector and by the most beautiful golf course imaginable. Should Bob and his friend Walter end up here I took the liberty of putting both their names on the membership waiting list for the golf course.

I am awaiting reincarnation assignment necessitating a hearing before the Reincarnation Tribunal. There is a terrible backlog almost equivalent to the Immigration Review Board of Canada! That might be appropriate as up here in The Land Beyond you are akin to a refugee!

My tribunal counsel has advised me due to my stellar accomplishments on earth I will graduate to a human. All memory of my prior life will be erased. This frightens me as all dogs and humans and all my experiences locked in my mind will vanish. I query what did I live my life for only to have all these memories and experiences stripped from me. But those are the rules.

But I still haven’t left the building yet. I may comment on Rory’s puppydom. Dylan the Westie was Dylan the Westie and Rory Dylan Stephen is Rory Dylan Stephen. They are different dogs with differing destinies although with Bob and Fay managing the pup he is in good hands.

I hang around with Kit Kat, Ollie, Reggie the Egyptian Rescue Dog and my big Labradoodle pal Walton joined us a couple of weeks ago. Mookie is the last of the Old Guard but at 15 he will be joining us eventually. Penny the copter poodle won’t be here for some time.

We spend our days in a pack exploring the mountains, forests and streams all expressing gratitude we are not in the Land Below. There you can smoke, drink, gamble, dance and cavort about but you are locked there never to be reincarnated.

We hang out with Pope Francis as he knows both Reggie the Egyptian Rescue Dog and I as we sat on his lap in the Vatican. We walk once a week with Gordon Lightfoot and Reggie always asks him to play “The Wreck of the Edmund Fitzgerald”. The pack never tires of that song.