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read between the lines
seeing eye to eye this was entirely unexpected: i'd gone over to my maternal grandparents' house to play with my aunt's dogs there (while my parents helped mah mah with an errand) and unwittingly took part in a delightful minute-long gaze with a very pretty dog there (and she is quite pretty, having naturally mascara-ed eyes, and folded, feminine ears compared to her brother's triangular, pointed ones plus four black nails with one dainty white dewclaw nail per paw).now, i'd seen the trio before (suki and simon were the puppies we'd given to my aunt that came from one of our neighbourhood stray mother dogs while tammy was this frantic, anxious temple dog whom my aunt decided to adopt due to the dog's dangerous propensity to knock down elderly temple devotees by jumping on them in excitement) but this hadn't happened yet. anyway, several months on and tammy was finally not as fretful as she used to be (her paws used to try to force my hands down whenever i tried to pat her) although she never sat still the entire hour i was there, while simon had learnt a new trick of putting his paw on your arm (as if to say i'm here, play with me) if you paid attention to the other dogs for too long. when i got around to suki, i squatted across from her and proceeded to pat her head -- and then it happened. this dog, who was nearly at eye level with me as she sat down across from me, started gazing at me with her smiling eyes and grinning mouth for at least one full minute. gradually she started eyeballing me, shifting her gaze from my right eye, to my left, and i kind of stopped my patting for a while as we studied each other. she then broke the gaze and i gave her a back brush (with praises) before tammy started interrupting us. the last time i'd witnessed such an intent, uninterrupted gaze was a few years ago when i had the pleasure of sitting next to a table which had a couple that did just that (staring without speaking) for the entire time they ate through their mcdonald's breakfast meals. it was like the couple were telepathically speaking to each other, not unlike how my aunt's attractive canine here was trying to convey her gladness at my arrival and happiness of just being with me. seriously, are dogs not the best friends in the world? =p |
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