ナショナルジオグラフィックのインスタグラム(natgeo) - 2月5日 08時45分

Photos by @vincentjmusi | Scout is a happy, well-adjusted 13- year-old Boykin spaniel who might not be able to see or hear as well as she once did. Food is often on her mind and her sense of smell hasn’t betrayed her ability to raid a trashcan in the dark of night. I often have a lot to say about other people’s dogs. This is not unexpected given my family history, as my mother always had a lot to say about other people’s dogs. Usually that they “looked hungry.” She was mostly Greek, had married into a large Italian family, and food was always on her mind.
She tried to feed every living thing that came within a square mile of our house, whether it was hungry or not. She would feed the squirrels, rabbits, lost children, and stray birds. The men who picked up our trash never left without sandwiches. Escaped convicts, on the run, could count on a meal at our home before the cops came.
They “looked hungry,” she would say.
My brother lived next door and spent many a hard-earned dollar on the healthiest dog food he could find for his prized Irish setter puppy. When the dog began to gain weight, he spent even more on fancy food and restricted her diet, extracting pledges from my mom not to feed her while he was at work.
The more he watched her diet, the more weight the dog gained. Despite promises, our mother simply could not be trusted. “She looked hungry,” Mom would say, as she tossed the dog table scraps, peanut butter sandwiches, and leftover pasta.
My brother would come home and storm off, broke, with his overweight dog reluctantly dragging behind.
A gal like Scout would have gotten along well with my mother.
From #TheYearOfTheDogs, an occasional dispatch seen here occasionally from photographer @vincentjmusi Follow him at your own risk. #boykinspaniel

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