Today we took our usual morning stroll. I noticed a woman with her dog on a leash about half a block ahead of us, watching quietly as we approached. “She’s blind.” The woman pointed to her dog, an elderly lab with a grey-whiskered beard.
I held out my hand and she approached to sniff me gingerly. “Hello Sweetie,” I said to her, trying to be gentle. But she seemed a little nervous.
“She has diabetic blindness. To her, you look like a flag waving.” I assumed she meant my long denim dress, which was blowing around in the breeze.
I realized how important our dogs are to us, and how much “in sickness and in health” applies to our pets, as well as to those humans we love.
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