Jillian's Journal

I played outside with Bailey, our neighbor’s dog. She is a BIG (especially to me, when you consider I’m only about 2 1/2 feet tall and weigh about 20 lbs.) Golden Retriever. True to her nature, she is a very gentle dog. I know this because I feed her crab apples from our tree and Bailey takes my whole hand in her mouth and with great patience uses her teeth and tongue to take the apples out of my hand with such gentleness that the only affect this has to my hand is a good soaking of slobber. I laugh so hard and then grab another hand full of crab apples and do it again! I’m not sure which part is more painful for Mommy and Daddy. My whole hand in the mouth of a dog that is standing face to face with their daughter, OR their daughter with a hand soaked with slobber proceeding to sign ‘eat’, which involves putting that same hand up to her mouth! (…and I sign ‘eat’, every time my hand comes out of Bailey’s mouth!)