No Sniffing the funeral flowers please!

Last week I attended the funeral of a very dear old friend of mine. Let me preface this by saying that I am currently training a 14month old GreatDane puppy, Karma, to replace my previous service mobility dog Tigger.

We arrived at the funeral service just as it started so I was trying to keep Karma’s gear from jingling to much as we entered the auditorium.

Since we have social distancing going on right now, even though there weren’t very many people attending the service, every other pew was taped off so of course we couldn’t just quietly sit down in the very back row. About seven pews up, I directed Karma to go in between and lay in the floor. I just forgot that she has never been in a church building before, I was used to my other dog Tigger he always knew what to do.

UP ON THE BENCH SHE JUMPED!

I wanted to crawl in a hole. The more I tried to get her down, the more noise her gear made so I quickly gave up and let her stay on the pew where she laid quietly.

UNTIL I LOOKED OVER!

Ok, so this is not supposed to be funny, but I looked over and Karma has her head hanging over the back of the pew as if she’s saying “Hi” to everyone behind us. I just prayed no one was upset.

The service moved along and was very nice.

Just before the service ended it was asked if anyone had anything to share about my friend during her 90 years of life to come up and share their memories. So Karma and I stood up near the casket and I gave my story.

However, I didn’t know until later that Karma was giving her own little show. She was sniffing the daisies and looking around, things that puppies do and that I didn’t think about before.

About the funeral, my friend lived a very long and good happy life. She was happily married to a wonderful husband for 61 years before he passed a few years ago. Good people are hard to find so when you find them hold on tightly with both hands.

And great dogs are even better!