Beautiful ...
Yesterday, I was in the car with the kids and we were talking about a group I have heard of that makes dog houses for dogs that have to live outside in the winter ... like habitat for humanity for dogs. And my kids didn't understand why any dogs would have to live outside. So I asked them if there was something different between dogs and other animals. No, they said, because they love all animals and know farmers can love their animals too. Then I asked why it seems ok that horses and cows and other farm animals live outside. They told me they have barns, but we thought about how there really is something different about dogs. While we couldn't put our fingers on it and articulate it, we knew they aren't just dogs ...