Devon's 5-star day

For the last two months, Devon has been "Library Dog" every Thursday evening. Her duties include wagging her tail and asking for pets from anyone she comes in contact with, and listening to children read. Some weeks we have a dozen or more kids who come to see her, and other weeks it's light and only one or two kids come by.

This week, Devon played hostess to 8 children, with six of them staying the entire hour! The kids read to her, petted her and did craft projects. Devon even got to say hello to an almost 1-year-old girl who walked up to Devon and grabbed her muzzle to look up to her. I was so amazed by Devon's reaction to this very little girl. She was very gentle and even laid down to give the little girl a better advantage for petting her.

The highlight of the evening was when the kids came over to present some craft projects to Devon. The kids laughed and cheered when Devon took their projects in her mouth and brought them to me. Devon was even presented with a paper airplane! The kids loved her "tricks" so much, one presented her with a star on her forehead. And since there were five colors of stars, Devon had to do four more tricks to earn a star in every color.

The photo here shows a very tired Devon ready to leave the library with her 5 stars on her head and carrying her new paper airplane. I told her she looked like Wonder Woman! Devon wore her stars proudly the rest of the evening. I found one on the kitchen floor, one was in Page's fur, another ended up on my shoulder and the other two were lost outside in the dark. The Library Dog slept very well Thursday evening!