Loyalty 2: A dog's best friend

                Last week, I wrote about loyalty and used, “Dogs sleeping at the foot of their masters’ beds” to exemplify this quality.

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                But what about a dog staying by the side of another dog that lay injured in the middle of a California highway?

                Watching the morning news on CBS today, Charlie Rose reported on a viral video taken by a man who found a stray black Labrador that would not leave the side of a yellow Labrador that had been hit by a car.

                Although the yellow Lab unfortunately died, the black Lab, eventually named Grace because of her actions, would not budge even as cars whizzed by and passersby stopped to help the poor dog.

Loyalty: Define your actions

                Actions define loyalty.

                Children running into the open arms of their parents.

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                Dogs sleeping at the foot of their masters’ beds.

                Young wives waiting at airport terminals for their husbands to return home.

                Each act shows a specific trait: trust, friendship or love.

   Loyalty is a sense of trust.

   Every vacation, I drive six hours across 314 miles of New York State to see my family. The process of going home never changes.