I have a senior dog, Soda, that we rescued 11 years ago. When we adopted him, he was described as four years young, but our vet said given the state of his teeth and overall health, he would put him more in the six- to seven-year range.
Soda has been blind for a while, right about the time he developed diabetes, but in the past year, his ability to decipher shapes and light has vanished. Now, when he is in a new space, he does this odd thing called “circling,” where he walks in a spiral shape that gets slightly larger until he has mapped out his surroundings.
The other day, I watched Soda spiral the floor of my friend’s living room, and I thought about how the phrase “walking…
