"What Having a Dog Can Teach You

Back from reading the morning thread and feeding the pesks.

"What Having A Dog Can Teach You About Life"

ahh. Haven't read the article yet, but I often say, I wish I'd known, when our kids were little, what our faithful and brilliant dog has taught me in the last decade.

He wandered up on us when he was young, probably tossed out by somebody when he became no long a cute puppy but a rowdy young dog. (Told my son to go chase off the stray. Son ran up to dog, yelling and waving his arms. Dog just laid down. I knew we had a new dog from that moment. So, Son got to name him.)

Dog had some adjustment problems, spent his early years mostly tied up, but eventually learned his territory and duties and now the leash is only used when we're in town and the tether never. He taught us, in return, to trust his judgment and dog-wisdom, something that didn't come easily to me.

Of course, if any of our kids had been half-way as trainable, much less eager to please...!