My four legged friends

Here at Moreau House we have three dogs living with us. Peace, Roger, and Ronny are their names. Peace is the most docile of the three, go figure. He is closest to Fr. Bob. Peace spends most of his time sleeping at various locations in the house, he doesn’t get out too often.
Do you remember that movie “All Dogs Go To Heaven”. Well, I think I finally met the dog that might. Peace spend a lot of his free time in the chapel. Sometimes we find him in there by himself and other times he comes and sits down behind us for evening and night prayer. He doesn’t make any noise nor does he move around. He is quite reverent. We often joke about Peace being the only dog on Earth that practices silent adoration.
On the other hand Roger and Ronny are quite a handful. Roger is a handsome dog. He is all black save his white paws. His tail is quite bushy and he has a lean figure. Unfortunately, Roger had some abusive keepers in the past which has affected him severely. There are only a couple people that he consistently trusts, and it takes years to gain his trust. Personally, I think he is bi-polar. There are times when he loves you and only desires your attention and there are others when he wants to kill you.
Just when you think you have got him as your friend he turn on you. His growl is one of the most disturbing and ferocious I have ever heard. He will sometimes even attack you, but he never locks his jaws around you. Poor Roger. You just have to make sure that he knows you are not afraid of him. Our cook, Elizabeth, has not learned to do this so she never goes outside unless Roger is locked up inside.
Ronny is a timid girl. She is always giving way to Roger. She allows herself to be dominated by everyone that comes past. Sometimes she can be quite rambunctious, but for the most part she just lays around and follows Roger wherever he goes.
An important thing to remember is that these are African dogs. When these dogs spend time outside they are dealing with a lot more than squirrels, skunks, and garden snakes. But rather monitors, tsetse flies, and cobras. It is dangerous out there and these dogs survive. I would definitely say that they are brave animals, but its not like we treat them like parts of the family. They don’t sell health food for dogs like we do in the States.
Anyway we all agree that the dogs definitely bring character to the house and they always keep things interesting.