"We're Not So Different, You and I"

Barley, a dog, gazes into the eyes of one of her toys, a blue creature that just barely qualifies as a pig.

From time to time, I catch myself realizing that dogs are not burdened in the ways we are by the sense that something is “wrong.” When I saw this approximate pig at the store, my first reaction was that it must have been designed by a space alien whose only description of a pig came from a medieval manuscript. But upon further reflection, it occurs to me that there’s no way Barley would care, or even notice, that this is a “wrong pig.”

So, meet Hieronymus, Barley’s newest toy and escapee from the Garden of Earthly Delights.