Getting a leg up ... or four (and a wet nose)

If ever one needed evidence that our quadraped friends help us make friends, this is it! This approach has endless legs (no pun intended).

I was giving a Web/phone demo to a potential customer today. It was going well, but it was kind of stiff, and there was no chemistry. Then I heard a dog bark.

I asked if he had a dog; he said "yes." We put the demo on hold, and I asked what kind of dog he had. When he said, "miniature daschund," I immediately put this image on the shared screen:



These little guys are my cousin in South Africa’s one-year-old miniature daschunds.

Then we resumed the demo ... as old friends! This, once again, proves that dogs are the ultimate “humanizer.” Kind of ironic, no?