Knitting by Blind Faith

This afternoon, I decided to leave Joy sleeping in her bed while I took a restroom break. One of my coworkers saw me in the hall and asked, “Is your puppy taking a union approved break?”

“Yes, she is,” I said, laughing.

As I continued on down the hall, another coworker asked me to explain. As I was explaining that I had left Joy back in the office, since I was simply going to the restroom, here she came cautiously down the hall looking for me! I called her name, and she came quickly and with confidence, dragging her leash behind her. She was wagging her tail and prancing as she approached me, and I picked up her leash and praised her.

“That’s the reaction my dog gives me after being gone all day,” my coworker said. “You’d think she went a whole day without seeing you, not two minutes.”

Joy, for her part, took pride in the fact that, even though I, in my moment of pure insanity, had the audacity to think that I could get along without her, *she* did not forget that I belonged to her and was *her* responsibility.

Lesson learned. My girl takes such good care of me!