Dogs

 The dog is only a puppy. It whines and whinges. The owner has issues (I see the symptoms; I don't know the underlying cause) and fusses with the dog. This is happening in the silent Meeting and can't be allowed to go on so I do my elder thing and extract them from the Meeting and take them for a walk. They behave perfectly well, but when we get back to the Meeting House there is drama. Tears. "I didn't want to go for a walk" . Other people pitch in- which is as it should be.  In Quakerism everyone is a priest and nobody is. It's one of the fundamentals. Ministry is shared, not vested in a single person.

This matter will be on-going.....

The dog is a cockapoo. My daughter has one of those. They're the most restless, boisterous dog ever invented. I'm told that the breeder who put spaniel and poodle together is on record as saying, "That was my biggest mistake." And yet they're so popular, so fashionable.

I'm not a dog person, but there are dogs I like. The person with the cockapoo previously owned an elderly greyhound. That dog was a love. And Edna has a Romanian street dog called Molly which is bright eyed and altogether delightful.