More than anything else, I think, I want dogs I live with to love people and to love their lives. I have a winner with Fate, who seems to love everyone she meets, and melts and wriggles with joy at the prospect of loving them. At the Cambridge Farmer’s Market, she made a friend with a young woman sitting in one of the booths, she jumped up onto her lap and the two of them hugged and kissed. This lifts my heart, even more than the grace and ballet of a great herding dog. This is the point of dogs.