Pao Meets the New Puppy: A Lesson in Patience

Pao is a six-year-old Samoyed, and for most of her life she has been the queen of our apartment in Silom. So when we brought home a fluffy puppy last month, I was not sure how she would react. The first day she simply walked to her bed and turned her back on the little one. I took that as a bad sign.

We kept them apart at first with a baby gate. After a few days, Pao started looking through the gate with her ears up, and the puppy barked at her with his tail wagging. It was almost like a conversation between an old professor and a student who never stops talking.

Now the puppy follows her everywhere, and Pao has accepted the role of a patient teacher. She still steals the best spot on the sofa, but she lets the puppy share the blanket, and that is enough for me.