Inspiration

Most days, the Fairy Blogmother's inspiration comes during her daily walk with the Fairy dog, Lucy. This pooch happens to be the cutest chocolate labrador retriever you've ever seen. She is most demanding about her morning walk, so we're on a wooded path that skirts the grounds of a private boarding school usually by 7:00 AM. shine or rain. This walk also proves to keep both human and canine very grounded and entertained. I find it also to be very humbling to begin each day by scooping poop. Lucy it seems, considers her morning dump both a ritual and a gift to a much loved master. She sniffs the ground for fun.

This morning we met a friend and her dog Rosie, a springer spaniel who prefers solitude to a romp with another dog. The brown velvet dog did what dogs of her breed usually do upon meeting another canine. She slipped under a fence to offer the official dog greeting: a jump, a wag,a prance and then she proceeded to smell Rosie's rear section. Dogs usually do this - it's a known fact. But Rosie wasn't a fan of the butt sniff, and reacted rather sternly with a growl, teeth baring, and chasing attack. Lucy immediately understood her actions were not appreciated and once rebuffed, she retreated to sniffing the ground, not intending to play for the rest of the walk.

And what do I think we humans can learn from this brief adventure? Why it's simple:
1. Know your audience before your performance.
2. Don't stick your nose into someone else's business.
3. If you over-react to someone advances, don't expect them to come around to you anytime soon.