Dog and encyclopedia

Sharing coffee with a ph.d. poet and his dog, Lola, a pit bull mix recovering from surgery, who sprawled on the cement walkway in front of Tea Leaf and Coffee Bean, a very skinny woman leaned over to talk to the dog. I noted that it's like having a toddler. "Yeah, they told me to talk to my dog like she was two years old," she said. "But my two year old granddaughter reads the encyclopedia! Should I talk to my dog about the encyclopedia?"