It’s been a while since we went to Kansas to visit, but last time we were there a funny thing happened to my mother and my dog.
She and Gary were out for a walk. They paused at an intersection and she made him look both ways before she let him cross the street. (When he and I walk he is rewarded for looking for traffic by being allowed to run across the street. In Grand-doggie mode he is much better behaved. Apparently you NEVER even think about crossing your alpha’s alpha in the dog world.)
Someone walking by laughed and said, “You can’t teach a dog to look for cars.”
“Seeing eye dogs do,” my mother replied cheerfully and continued across the street leaving her small town heckler standing on the sidewalk mouth agape.
Today we dedicate our post to German Shepherd Dogs and their long tradition as service animals. K-9 units, seeing eye dogs, etc. Many breeds are used now, but as I understood it they have blazed the initial trail of paw prints.
