This morning at 10:44 we were just coming our of Trader Joe’s when we spotted these two dogs sitting in a car, patiently waiting for their master to return from a shopping trip. They both looked somewhat worried as though the possibility existed that their master would never, ever return to them, and this in spite of the fact that they probably find themselves in this exact same position every other day. We didn’t see the owner of the vehicle come back, but we are certain that he or she was given a royal greeting, a hero’s welcome, as it were. Dogs are funny that way; they have the capacity to make us feel special, and we expect it of them. Cats are altogether different: we have the capacity to make them feel special, and they expect it of us. To each his own...