Dog angels - benign presences in the world.

So a dog appeared, one of those slow Istanbul dogs, with a smooth golden coat. He came to rest on the rocks, close to us, between us and the group of men, who continued their calls and jibes, pushing each other around and swigging their beers, their eyes in our direction, their voices growing louder. Showing off, they called the dog over to them, but he didn’t move. They had some leftover food, some kind of bread and meat, and they offered it to the dog with a flourish, dangling the treat within his line of sight. The dog raised his head, looked at the meat, and wouldn’t budge. https://www.thesunmagazine.org/issues/577/stranger-kin

I have been a reader of The Sun Magazine since it appeared in the mid 70s. It is a unique magazine of interviews stories, memoirs, poems, and photographs with no advertising.

The short piece quoted above entailed, “Strange Kin” comes from the January 2024 issue. I am interested in what people think about the experience the author describes.