But we got to talking about some of the good times we had together and we reminisced about the camp that she and my uncle once owned and how my parents used to bring us to in the summer for family gatherings. I began thinking about the HUGE dogs that she once had, she told us when we were kids that this breed was a Newfoundland.
What I remember is these two gigantic black dogs that were bigger than any dog I had ever seen and close to being horses. My aunt had them for many years and when ever we visited I would always ask my dad if she still had the Big Black Dogs. Both dogs crossed over the rainbow bridge long before I was a teenager and my aunt ended up with two smaller pekingese dogs.
Years later I met someone who had several Newfoundland dogs and remarked "aren't those dogs huge?" and she said yes. Eventually, I had a chance to visit her house and meet the dogs, and my first thought when I saw them was "are they breeding these dogs smaller now?"
The next time that I visited, my friend's young neice was over and it finally dawned on me that, no, they are not breeding Newfoundlands smaller, I am actually taller and have a different view of this Big Dog. But still my mind says that these dogs should be almost as big if not bigger than me.
Now that I bring my greyhound into my new school and walk past the kindergarten and first grade rooms to get to the stairs up to the fourth floor, we often meet several of the students as we pass by and their reaction is always "thats a really big dog Mrs Collins"!! At that point I always look back and remember, yes, when you can look the dog directly in the eye and it is as tall as you are, it is one big dog.
Will these kids go one to think that greyhounds are HUGE dogs forever? I wonder... it is all in size and perspective.
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