grateful today

I adopted Happy during last year’s Awakening Joy class.  Because joyfulness does not come easily to me, it took a few months of study to realize how happy dogs make me and how ready I was to live with one again.  Just a few things I’m grateful to Happy about:

*She’s always happy to see me.

*Her ears look exactly like drop down menu arrows.

*She loves odor.

*Where I am stoic and slow, she is exuberant and fast.

*She’s a little afraid of silverware (I think it’s the sound).

*She’s amazingly willing to follow me almost all the time.

*She loves vegetables, and last week snuck behind me to steal a collard green rib out of the garbage.

*She collects her own food outdoors – crab apples, grass, walnuts, and (sadly) carcasses.

*She loves dogs as much as people (which seems healthier to me than some people obsessed dogs somehow).

*She loves Indian raga music.

*She’s super smart and speaks more English than other dogs I’ve had.  So far she knows Come, Down, Stay, Sit, Speak, Get it, Bring it, Leave it, Jump, Chase, Go, Look, and Who Is That?  And Stairmaster, which means “Why don’t you go run up and down the stairs until you’re tired out?”

-Katy

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