Is That A New Friend?!

Barley, a dog, stands up as tall as she can to see something out of frame.

Barley is so scent oriented that her approach to the outdoors is predominantly a hunkering saunter, trotting along while scanning for compelling smells. However, there is one sound her ears are always scanning for, and that’s any jingle jangle in “pet collar tag” territory. Any tag jangles could mean a new friend! Upon jangle detection, she stands as tall as she can and scans the horizon, her ears pivoting to triangulate the point of origin.

Anticlimactically, in this photo, it turned out to be someone’s car keys instead.