Today is the first warm day of the year, and the playground was absolutely mobbed. About thirty children were peeking at Odin through the bars. When Odin thinks he clearly should be getting pets and yet he isn’t, he likes to throw himself on the ground and roll adorably to win them over.

We also ran into the therapist for nonverbal autistic children, who takes them on walks with her own dog. She always encourages them to pet Odin, because he’s the exact right level of “looks scary but actually perfectly safe” to gently challenge them to engage.

(Today, it was a new child, and they chose not to. Maybe next time!)

@0xabad1dea I love this so much