Dog Stares Me Down

I walked back from the grocery store tonight and was waiting for my elevator. A couple who had been walking their dog was there waiting for the pet elevator. I noticed the dog looking at me so I looked back and said, “Hello.” She kept staring and her walker said, “I think she likes you.” The dog was staring intently into my eyes, and I was tranfixed by curiosity about what the dog was thinking, what was motivating it to look so hard directly into my eyes. My assumption is that she was curious about the food items in my bag and was engaging in a subtle, slightly passive-aggressive form of begging. But in the time I was pondering this, my elevator came and the dog-walker, noticing my trance, alerted me that the elevator was here. So I made a crack about being hypnotized by her dog and hopped into on board.

I’m still curious about what was in that dog’s mind and why it hed me so rapt.

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