It seems that I have had the opportunity to know a good many of just the kind of little girl you spoke with. Having had two dogs for the last twenty years I am a magnet for the this type of interaction with the little dog lovers. They, like me, have no aversion to being unbridled in their interest and affection for dogs. One day in the grocery store a young woman stopped me and asked if I used to live on a certain street. When I said yes, she said *I used to walk your dogs!*. BECKY, of course I remembered her. As my little neighborhood girls grow up there always seems to be a few more waiting in the wings to be thrilled at my dogs tricks or share stories of their own pets with me. Right now I am eagerly awaiting the arrival of Grace's new puppy or dog. (Her family's GR passed to the RB about 6 months ago.) I made her promise me just last night that I would be the first to know when it arrived.