They all know him and drag their poor owners along the walk to get to this older gentleman who sits on a bench in town. He is known as the cookie man to all canines of Ladenburg.
When I first moved to this village, he shared his bench with friends and a VERY large German Shepard who use to sleep in the shadow the bench created. Sadly about a year into our time here….the shadow remained but the Shepard was gone. I was so sad to see this man loose his companion.
Then one day, I started to notice, one by one all the dogs stopping to visit a while at the bench. Of course Clover, my dog, figured out this game immediately. He use to avoid the bench in great fear of the Shepard….and later the shadow. It makes me happy to know that he may have lost his own dog, but instead of becoming bitter and angry about his personal loss he has chosen to make all the dogs of the town his. Hence gaining the title “The Cookie Man of Ladenburg”.
by lthek
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