Visit with 'D'

Monty has a little friend who we'll call D here for the sake of anonymity. D is a little boy about 5 years old and he's autistic but he constantly talks about dogs to his parents. It's at the point where they ask him if he wants a baby brother and sister and he says, "NO, Dog!" I hear about D all the time at painting class and that's how his grandmother got the idea to give D for Christmas 6 visits with Monty. Today was our 1st visit.

Overall I think it went rather well. I had brought some buscuit shaped cookies and Monty's quacky stuffed duck for us to play with. At 1st D was very shy and didn't want to talk to Monty other than say 'Hi' and really was nervous coming up and didn't want to pet him or Mont to touch him. So instead he played with his little race cars and talked about his cars and told Monty and me all about them. Then D decided that playing fetch with the duck would be fun especially since the duck 'quacks' rather than squeaks. So we did that for a while. Throught out the half hour we were there D kept getting braver and braver and closer and closer to Monty and in the end he even let Mont sniff his leg without getting nervous.

Finally when it was time to leave D had a little melt down because he wanted Monty to stay, but he did with his dad's help give Monty a good bye cookie and settled down and said good bye after that and was told that Monty will come back to visit him again.

So I think it was a good visit and Monty did well. He's such a good little corgi boy.