Sense of Dogs

Last night I was watching the Twilight Zone. It was about an old man and his dog. They go on a racoon hunt together one night and end up dying. As the old man and his dog are getting ready to enter heaven, Peter informs the old man that the dog cannot go in. The dog is barking as  the old man pleads his case with Peter. Nope, the dog cannot go in. Peter tries hard to pursuade the man to just come inside. After the old man says no, then Peter starts with trying to make deals, just come on in and then I will slip the dog in for you later. The old man still said I will just keep walking on down the road. The old man and the dog left, only to be approached by The Real Peter. It is then that we find out that the first stop was hell, and the man at that gate was not Peter. We also learn that with the dog barking at the gates of hell, that the dog had sensed the fake Heaven. The story ends with the man and his dog going into Heaven together.

In life we make good and bad choices, we get conned, swindled, lied to and taken advantage of. We can learn a lot from our dogs, their keen sense of smell, their hearing.  If they are barking at something that appears not to be there, maybe it's because they smell a rat.
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