Tuesday, March 30, 2021

Gathering around the hydrant

Waiting for her friends
London, ON
March 2021
This photo originally shared on Instagram


She has a thing for fire hydrants. Of course, all dogs do.

The typical hydrant is the neighborhood's primary asynchronous meeting spot for dogs, the one thing they all sniff out at various times to see who's been there and what they've been up to. My dog-whisperer friend calls it the Doggie Internet, and she's absolutely spot-on.

To humans, it's disgusting. Would YOU stick your nose in a spot that's been peed on G-d knows how many times?

But dogs are built differently. Their normal isn't our normal. And I remind myself of that as she happily explores this icky-to-us/nirvana-to-them fixture.

Perhaps Planet Earth might be a little more kind if we applied the same kind of thinking to each other.

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