Waiting for Mama

Doc, a miniature schnauzer

Children come running to meet Mama when she comes home---up until about age seven.
Pets are forever young.  They always come running.  They are always enthusiastic greeters. Perhaps they are always happy, but also perhaps, they have been having separation anxiety and abandonment concerns the entire time Mama was gone.  They are sweet loves, and they never become teenagers.  This is a photo of Doc, miniature schnauzer, now aged twelve.  He rules the kingdom, don't you know?