December Daily: dogs

anitac588 prompted me to talk about either dogs or Chris Evans, and since I don't have enough prompts to fill the month, I'm going to do them both on separate days.

I'm definitely a cat person. I'm a little wary of dogs. Years ago a character in a novel described dogs as "hectic and chaotic," and that's always what I'm expecting when I meet one.

But lately my experiences with dogs have been better. I may be mellowing, but I also think that I'm meeting more well-trained, well-socialized dogs than I did as a child.

On our Thanksgiving trip, we saw a lot of service dogs in airports. You know that alert and slightly worried expression that some dogs get when they're working? I'm charmed by it. I was charmed by the behavior of the humans who interacted with the dogs, too, and let me tell you, these days I don't spend nearly enough time being charmed by humans I don't know.

My brother brought his dog to visit my mother's house the day after Thanksgiving. He's had her DNA tested, and in addition to being literally 100% that bitch, she is also mostly chocolate lab with some shepherd and several assorted terriers in her ancestry. (There's more useful information and less drama in dog DNA testing than in the human kind.) She has a cream-colored circle on the bottom of each paw, just behind the paw pads. She's a sweetheart.

I don't know if I'll ever have a dog. Their main flaw is that they don't purr. I always said the same thing about babies.


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