Bella Remembers

Bella, the Labrador Retriever, and I were heading west on 4th Avenue, at 1:35 a.m. during our normal evening constitutional, when Bella turned right onto 22nd St., and froze. Waddling straight towards us in the gloom was canine Nemesis: a skunk! To my great surprise, Bella reacted with respect and fear, and decided we should abandon the detour onto 22nd Street. Bella seems as dumb as a box of rocks sometimes, but it's been less than two months since her last WMD encounter with a skunk, and she actually REMEMBERED!