Earlier this week, Simon started a new job. For the first time in his adult life, he is driving to work (welcome to American culture, huh?).
It has become clear that despite countless trips in a car himself, Merwin doesn't quite grasp the concept. We'll head out for our morning walk as Simon is hopping into the Golf. As he drives down the road and says goodbye through the open window, Merwin carefully watches. When the car is gone, he seems to think that Simon should still be there. He doesn't watch the car disappear down the street or chase after it. Instead, he sniffs the road, whines, and strains to look for Simon on that one patch of pavement. And at the end of the day he gets excited when he hears the car pull into the driveway, so how doesn't he understand that in the morning, the car takes Simon away?
I suppose I can't expect much more from that tiny brain, but it's just interesting to me what dogs "get" or in this case, don't get.
Whatever. At least he's got his looks.
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