The story of Max and Francesca

Several people in my new community had told me about Max and
Francesca, but the other day I was biking down a block and I saw them;
I knew it was them as soon as I realized what I was seeing.

Max is a big dog. You could almost put a saddle on him. He's beautiful
and must be a service dog because we aren't allowed to have big dogs
like him. But he's absolutely regal looking.

Francesca is a cat. A small, black and white cat. And Francesca and
Max are apparently the best of friends. Max was being walked along the
curb, and Francesca was walking a few feet away from him, taging along
for the trip. I came up to the owner and started talking to him so he
stopped, Max stopped, and Francesca stopped.

Max, of course, lives inside the house and they also have a cat.
Francesca won't come inside, but they feed her. As soon as Max comes
out the door, Francesca comes running from wherever she was and goes
along for the walk.

It really is so sweet and it just looks so funny, this huge dog and
this small cat walking together. Life can be very pretty sometimes.

On 9/1/2015 8:22 PM, dgk wrote:
Several people in my new community had told me about Max and
Francesca, but the other day I was biking down a block and I saw them;
I knew it was them as soon as I realized what I was seeing.

Max is a big dog. You could almost put a saddle on him. He's beautiful
and must be a service dog because we aren't allowed to have big dogs
like him. But he's absolutely regal looking.

Francesca is a cat. A small, black and white cat. And Francesca and
Max are apparently the best of friends. Max was being walked along the
curb, and Francesca was walking a few feet away from him, taging along
for the trip. I came up to the owner and started talking to him so he
stopped, Max stopped, and Francesca stopped.

Max, of course, lives inside the house and they also have a cat.
Francesca won't come inside, but they feed her. As soon as Max comes
out the door, Francesca comes running from wherever she was and goes
along for the walk.

It really is so sweet and it just looks so funny, this huge dog and
this small cat walking together. Life can be very pretty sometimes.


How lovely!

"dgk" wrote in message
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Several people in my new community had told me about Max and
Francesca, but the other day I was biking down a block and I saw them;
I knew it was them as soon as I realized what I was seeing.

Max is a big dog. You could almost put a saddle on him. He's beautiful
and must be a service dog because we aren't allowed to have big dogs
like him. But he's absolutely regal looking.

Francesca is a cat. A small, black and white cat. And Francesca and
Max are apparently the best of friends. Max was being walked along the
curb, and Francesca was walking a few feet away from him, taging along
for the trip. I came up to the owner and started talking to him so he
stopped, Max stopped, and Francesca stopped.

Max, of course, lives inside the house and they also have a cat.
Francesca won't come inside, but they feed her. As soon as Max comes
out the door, Francesca comes running from wherever she was and goes
along for the walk.

It really is so sweet and it just looks so funny, this huge dog and
this small cat walking together. Life can be very pretty sometimes.

That's a lovely story.

Many moons ago, I use to ride a horse because his owner often could not
exercise him. He also had a collie, who chose to spend all his time with
the horse. If the horse was grazing in his paddock, that dog was beside
him, lying nearby, and he chose to sleep in the stable with the horse rather
than be in the house.
If I took the horse out, that dog was running along beside us. One day, the
collie was running along at the side and suddenly he veered across the road
and got hit by a car coming the other way. He certainly dented the front
of the car but got up, shook himself and was OK. The owner of the horse had
to pay to have the car repaired.
As far as I know that dog and horse remained together in the stable and
paddock until the end of their lives.
Most dogs attach themselves to humans, not this one. He only wanted his
horse.