Prince Samuel is fed up

Samuel was promoted to prince when I started putting a step stool by the car to make it easier for him to get in and out of. 

We've been walking in the same part of the same woods, morning and evening, M-F every day for two weeks. He is used to getting to choose one of four directions to walk in addition to special locations on the weekends. He is doing his best to protest the monotony.

He is used to cheering up people in the world by identifying who really wants to pet him and then approaching them in the park, on the sidewalk, and letting them. Now he is not allowed near even his friends. 

The consolation of having me with him, all day, every day, helps, but he's growing acclimated to it. 

We will have to cross the street more to wander those woods. 

What a blessed life he lives. 

A friend of mine was once trying to explain that when you reincarnate, if you were good, you get, "promoted" - which means moving up to human not down to dog - but she had to agree that Samuel has a better life than a lot of humans.