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| Cagney looking good at making us look good. |
There are days when my students make me look good. They don’t know they are being observed or that I would love it if they were interested, busy on their assignments, immersed in learning and my principal is watching. But there are days when all of them seem to be in sync with me and each other. When that happens, they make me look, they make themselves look good. But this post is actually not about my students. It is about my dogs.
My husband, daughter and I went to visit my in-laws for Thanksgiving, and we took the girls (our Labradors) with us. And they made us look really good. Put two big dogs with one little dog (the resident canine) in a small house with five people, two who are not too steady on their feet. Just imagine it a minute, and you’ll understand why we always put the girls in the enclosed porch area. My husband’s parents feel bad that the girls are out of the family society for the few days we are there. But we always fear that unexpected movement and an elderly person falling. However, this time, we let them talk us into allowing the girls to stay in the house just for the first few hours of our visit.
Cagney and Lacey never ended up in the enclosed porch. They were tranquil (probably hoping we would not notice we forgot to put them out of the house.) They moved slowly when slow people came near. They sat along side a slender leg, looked up and backwards at the sitting senior and then lay their heads gently, still and calm to received kind pats. They wagged considerately (only took out two leaves from the ivy by the door).
They made us look good. They made themselves look good. I don’t think they’ll be spending any time in the enclosed porch ever again.
#dogs #family