Health lessons from my dog...

Meet our dog, Dolly. She's between 4-9 years old. Has a heart of gold and is as sweet as can be. We've had her about 7 months!

Since K is out of town and he's the normal dog walker, I've taken on the responsibilities of walking our sweet girl. Sometimes I notice that she is so distracted by every noise and every smell. I've heard that dogs have a sense of smell that is 1000 x stronger than humans. I don't know where I heard that and if it's true. I do know that they do have a stronger sense of smell than I do. On one of our recent walks I noticed that she would literally stop and smell everything possible. She has this beautiful sense of wonder that has me enamored with her. I think we have a lot to learn from most of creation, but for this post...i'll focus on Dolly.

Things that she does that I find are good habits:
- She drinks a lot of water
- She tries to be patient when she eats and she sometimes eats slowly
- She is happy when she's outside and exercising
- She receives what the day has for her
- She explores her surroundings
- She embraces her curiosity
- She loves
- She gets a lot of sleep

I could've just looked at her habits and picked 31 things. :)