All Doggies Great and Small

This year’s Animal Blessing Service was a smaller event, but was perhaps more intimate and personal for that. Five dogs brought their owners and friends with them, and after some initial barking settled down for their special service. They listened carefully to see how well their human carers knew them, as each were asked what the dogs enjoyed most. They must have approved of James commending the humans to learn from dogs’ exuberance and positive nature, and were reassured that by his comment that a blessing in church would make a dog no more immune from misbehaving as soon as they leave the church than any human.