After our Ash Wednesday Mass, Bishop Stephen Parkes visited with my parishioners in the narthex. One of my parishioners trains Labs to be dog assistants to people in need. Thus she brings these dogs to church to train them to behave in public settings and gatherings.
But what is not pictured in this great photo, and you will notice that I am in the background to see it happen and react I did in an audible voice, is the fact that as the bishop moves his open palm toward the dog, the dog moves forward toward his hand as in an aggressive way to my eyewitness to the crime, as to bite the hand blessing him. The bishop pulled back in the nick of time!
Nothing like trying to bite the hand of the Bishop who is trying to bless you!
6 comments:
Why not? I do it all the time!
I have a labradork, and that raised hand overhead is gonna spook most labs.....unfamiliar dog should always get a look and sniff at back of hand down at nose level before raising hand and coming in from above.
what does FKJK do all the time? Bite the hand that feeds/blesses is the article theme, near as I can tell.
I am thinking of the lab seeing an extremely tall being wrapped in curtains and masked/capped bending over with hand raised.
A Novus Ordo Lab no doubt.
Apparently the woman handling the dog needs some training. If she's training the dog, shouldn't she have asked His Excellency to let the dog sniff the back of his hand first? All people familiar with dogs know this.
Well, labs love to chase larger birds, just romp/pounce right into a flock to watch it explode. It may have mistaken the giant bishop for a giant cardinal, labs not too sharp on hierarchy, and who knows, maybe a prophetic dog.
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