Friday, April 7, 2006

Wouldn’t hurt a dragonfly

Benjamin was outside, when he spotted this dragonfly that made its way into the screened in area and was sitting on his level on my office door.  Being the outgoing guy that he is, he immediately went over to give the dragonfly a good sniff.  Surprisingly, the dragonfly did not budge.

After thoroughly inspecting the dragonfly, Benny went over to his favorite chair to sun himself leaving the dragonfly perfectly intact.

The boys have a very gentle nature about them.  On our walks we have encountered many critters, but neither Benjamin nor Henry has ever harmed any of them.  We most commonly run into frogs on our walk and the boys just watch them hop along and they don’t try to chase them.

I like to think that this is because they have been exposed to a lot of different animals when they were puppies.  They live with a cat and they grew up with a rabbit.  It was pretty obvious to them that the cat was not a toy, but the rabbit took a little bit more work when they were puppies.  Luckily, Lou, the rabbit was very patient and very brave and I think he taught the boys a very valuable lesson.

As for Luna, I don’t have a complete read on her yet as to how she will handle other smaller critters.  She does very well with other dogs, the cat and with babies (she adores children).  The jury is still out on frogs, rabbits and other critters.