Every new environment is an opportunity for exploring and learning. The dog's approach to relationships is to love everything unconditionally, and as often and as much as you can. Everyone who is accepted as a member of the pack therefore receives unlimited love and invitations to play. Of course, dog's reputation for loyalty is legendary. Dogs live in a different sensory space than we do.
Dogs can sense things far away and around corners, through doors and inside containers.
They can read the past easily and in great detail. This makes their model of the world much different than human's, and we can develop a more expanded awareness by observing what is, in some degree, an alien viewpoint. It has been my good fortune for these many years to have such a knowledgeable and patient sensei to help me understand the ways of the Universe and the place of the beings in it. I have learned a lot from Sweeny, and I know the Universe has been a better place for his presence.