Saturday, August 13, 2016

Moments With A Dog


[Editor’s note:  The following accounts are both true   Further, they describe events with the same dog.  And, despite the natural flow, the two moments captured here occurred months apart.  Propriety prohibits me from divulging any additional information.]
 
·         The dog did what I told her to, and so without really thinking I said, “Thank you.” For a moment we just sort of looked at each other in awkward silence, and then she went back to licking her leg. I think in her heart she knew nothing had really changed for her.
 
·         After a while, and with gentle encouragement from me and a bunch of frantic sniffing for the right spot by her, the old dog finally pooped. “Good Girl!”, I cheered. She side glanced me, trying to be nonchalant, but clearly pretty proud of her newly birthed loaf. As the sun set on the poo and dew-kissed backyard, we slowly retired to the house, ready for a milkbone and whisky toast to her latest triumph.

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