[Dailydrool] Proud mum

[sally king]

Rolph amazes me sometimes - and not just when he comes up with a new wickedness.

This moring we were returning from our morning walk. We had just passed an infant school (ages 3 to 6) and turned the corner into our own road, when he stopped dead. I couldn't shift him. Not flat basset, just stationary basset.
He looked worried about something.

On the opposite corner was a little girl on a bike, aged around 4. There was no adult in sight. I waited for a while, partly coz Rolph wouldn't budge and partly to check an adult did turn up. Nothing. The kiddie was looking at the dogs and smiling. She even waved at them, so I asked where her mummy was. She just gestured behind her - but no mum appeared.

I was just wondering what to do, after all, to this mite I was a stranger, when a dad who I pass every morning with his own little girl came along. Luckily he knew her, as he used her name, and again asked where mum was. Once Rolph saw someone had taken on the situation he, very reluctantly, allowed himself to be dragged away. 

But what an amazing instinct. He saw something was wrong and I just wouldn't have seen it if he hadn't dug his heels in.

Sally with Protector Rolph and Clara (come on, she's just a kid, we see them every morning)

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