with me but he didn’t. If a dog
could trust me because I cared
for him, how much more the love
of God? The love of God is relent-
less. The song writer said, “There
is no shadow He won’t light up, no
mountain He won’t climb, coming
after me; there’s no wall He won’t
kick down.
told my Grandma that, I’m grown
(23), I don’t want to be asking her
for money every time rather I want
to get assets and work for myself
and doing something I love not
white collar jobs. Grandma said,
‘Fine, take the back of the house.
Make sure it’s nice, put your ken-
nel there but don’t disturb us.’
Fast forward, this dog has caught
TCM: How did you manage to take two thieves, (he has killed two cats
care of your first dog?
though).
SGQ: Most of it came from my up-
keep money and I had some sav- TCM: You trained them to what,
ings. The only thing I wouldn’t catch thieves?
touch was my tithe – that was a SGQ: He’s social, he can play with
no-no. Sometimes I wouldn’t eat, kids but at night he’ll still do his
other times I couldn’t give offer- job. Thank God for social media –
ings in church but I knew it would there are pros and cons to every-
pay off. I kept telling God that, ‘I thing. When I was a kid, I associat-
prayed and you gave him to me, ed with people (my uncles, etc.)
You give me the strength to sus- who had dogs and asked ques-
tain him’.
tions: how to feed them, how a
dog behaves, reacts, etc. I have a
“I told GOD that since He gave theory now that, the first 100 days
of a dog’s life is very crucial, just
me the faith to build a ken-
like the foundation you give to a
nel, He should give me a dog child will be what carries them. So
before the end of the year” you socialize the dogs with chil-
dren, with sound, things that it will
When my uncle later saw him, he meet in future so that it would not
could not believe the transforma- shy away from them on meeting
tions that had taken place.
them. I watch videos, and I get dog
trainers to share what they know
TCM: Where did you get such a with me (sometimes at a fee).
fierce passion for dogs like that? My dogs teach me a lot. Riley
Did your parents keep dogs?
doesn’t even want people to raise
SGQ: No, actually, they hate dogs. their voice at me. once a friend
We are Ewes, we like cats. But I came by and we were having a