Elevator

Ride elevator with Jenny and new neighbor Stephen who complained about howling. Stephen very frosty, even when Jenny sits down in front of him, cocks one ear and offers her paw to shake with him. When he doesn't accept her paw, Jenny--to my mind--very dejectedly draws it down to the ground. Know that Jenny's feelings are dog feelings and dogs don't feel rejection in the same way that we do, so feel rejected for her. Thankfully, in park, see Serena and tell her story of elevator. She gasps and then leans down to say, You deserve better, don't you, you sweet pooch. Jenny wriggles. You deserve better too, she says to me. Feel that this is the nicest thing anybody has said to me for a very long time, and perhaps ever.