I'm on my feet for 8 hrs/night, work graveyard, and am truly tired when I get home. But Piper loves going for walks and after allowing me a 1/2 of recovery time...off we go. Inevitably during our excursions, I start to feel better overall and refreshed--I tell my little girl how very good for me she is, and lemme tell ya, she really is...! I'll bet your little one gets you outside, then off the porch and then goodness, who knows!?! You both sound very sweet!
Every time I told my cocker spaniel, Taffy, my very first dog, that we were going for a walk, she would launch into a celebratory dance that ended with her racing around the room, always clockwise, and faster and faster, as if her joy could not be possibly contained. Even as a young boy I knew that hardly any creature could express joy so vividly as a dog.
Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson |