Close to my place in the world, there is a visiting Beagle, once a month, for an undetermined number of days. He stays in the back yard, calls out lonesome at the fence, and is generally ignored. I'm trying to calculate the pattern, but it's about 4 days, once a month.
He is an award in a divorce. The woman who "won" the issue doesn't do anything with friend Beagle. Doesn't play, doesn't take him for walks. The whole point is that she "won". In the divorce, so I hear, she won shared custody of the family pet, purely to deprive the "loser" of the right to the sole custody of the dog.
Makes you wonder what "win" and "lose" mean, doesn't it?
Dogs just don't understand such business, I think. Maybe that is why some notable or other says, from time to time, I do prefer dogs to people.
God created us and dogs, both. Maybe there are times when God says, all other things being equal, that He prefers dogs to people. Happily and hopefully, it is a passing feeling with God. But humans often take more mercy than dogs to maintain, it seems.
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