Hole-ly Irrelevant

Barley, a dog, investigates a favorite crawlspace vent on a building that’s been stripped of its siding.

I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised that this hole retains its magnetic pull on BArley’s attention, but I’m struck by how little interest she has in all the siding having been stripped off. It’s a good reminder that even though humans, as a rule, tend to pay attention to big changes in their environment, dogs are keyed into a different set of changes. Barley can surely see that the siding has changed, and (I presume) has some memory of the area, so it’s more a matter that she does not consider this change to be interesting or relevant to her.