Leslie,

I loved your account of Graham knowing what you want without even asking. That was the way my Bailey was. Bailey had one litter of pups before she was spayed. There were seven pups and although she was a devoted mother, I could tell that this caring for pups stuff was not her calling. She was very grateful when they could eat on their own and she didn't have to be with them, although whenever they saw her, they still wanted to nurse. We had a pen set up in the kitchen where we kept the pups. As you can imagine, I had to keep changing the paper in the pen frequently. One day Bailey and I were outside the pen and I opened it up to go in and pups spilled out in every direction. She and I looked at one another with that "Oh, my Gawd" expression. She then immediately took to rounding them up and helping me get them back in the pen. I think she wanted them back in the pen as much as I did and just knew what to do to accomplish the task.

Sorry to digress off the subject, but I just had to share this story with Leslie.