Janie responds with deferential nuances to my every movement. When I move toward her food bin in the evening, she nods her head several times and makes tiny backward steps. While I am filling her bowl, she edges closer, but if I raise my head she nods and backs up again. I put Janie in the bathroom to eat, so that Brinca will not interfere with her supper. Sometimes I forget that Janie is in the bathroom and I go in there to wash my hands. At such times she nods repeatedly and backs away from her food dish, obviously thinking: "Master doesn't want me to eat right now." As I finish washing my hands, she edges toward her dish, but waits for me to leave before resuming her meal. When we are walking along the road and I drop the leash, she makes her peculiar nod and stops to see what I will do.