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Pearl (Photo By Theodosia B. Martin)

The last couple of days I’ve been writing and thinking about the deficit of trust in government.  In the midst of this, I somehow got onto the topic of the trust shared between my dog, Pearl, and myself.

One reason that Pearl trusts me so much is that I was not the one to put goggles on her (above) and photograph her.   (That’s a joke, photographer Theo Martin!)

One reason that I trust Pearl so much is that she is cheerful and loving even when wearing silly goggles.

Some scientists refuse to attribute a complex emotional life to animals.  These, it seems to me, are very dogmatic scientists, and not very good observers of the natural world.

On the other hand (and there’s always another hand), some animal owners attribute a complicated array of human strategems to animals which, frankly, trivialize the animals’ specific and particularized intelligence.

Those are topics for another ManicDDay.   This post is really just a human strategem for posting Pearl’s picture, above, and the video link here, which was received by me in a moment when it was hard to trust in the goodness this day would bring, but which made me smile.

Dogs can do that.

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