When I lived in Oakland, I always brought Vinnie to the dog boarding kennel Citizen Canine whenever I traveled for work or pleasure. Seattle doesn’t have a reasonable facsimile of Citizen Canine which is fine because friends (or family) often volunteer to look after each other’s animals. My friend – let’s call her Kajagoogoo – watches Vinnie whenever I travel, she has two dogs of her own but doesn’t mind looking after him. Kaj (her friends call her Kaj) has never traveled outside Seattle until Monday night when it came time for me to look after her dogs. Rather than keep three dogs in my apartment, I decided to take Vinnie with me and look after the dogs in her house. Observations result.

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