ナショナルジオグラフィックのインスタグラム(natgeo) - 4月18日 21時09分

photo by @vincentjmusi Dovewood’s Millie, 2018

I’m pleased to share another short installment from my Year of the Dogs, a personal project celebrating the beauty and character of these amazing creatures we share our homes and families and lives with.

Those of you who think I plan out these dispatches well in advance will either be disappointed or pleased to find out that I don’t. When I was in college, I for a short time worked as a disc-jockey in a radio station, back when you extracted vinyl records from their sleeves and played them at random and with abandon. My shift was from 11 pm to 7 am. Maybe that’s why I never graduated.

I had every intention of posting a different dog today but when I woke my computer up to write, Millie was on screen staring back at me.
Unlike me, Millie’s educational background includes graduation from obedience class. She is conversant in a range of instructions, the most significant being “wait” which to be effective, is performed with an assertive voice and an index finger held within eyeshot.

Pleading, incidentally, does not work but was attempted numerous times before we understood that presentation is as important as the message.

She is a 5 year-old #BoykinSpaniel which is our state dog in my adopted home state of South Carolina and it may explain why you might see more Boykins than you want to if you follow me @vincentjmusi

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