KJ meets "giant horrifying ball of love"

[kiya]

Just to make my life easier, I am mildly reformatting this story from chat (and removing other people's comments, though one person described the dog breed in question as a giant horrifying ball of love, so I kept that).

[12:36] Lamprey met a Large Dog yesterday for the first time. She was Very Brave.

[12:37] (Met as in 'actually interacted with' rather than 'saw at a distance' or 'was barked at in a manner that scared *me*'.)

[12:39] My cousin (who is staying with my aunt and uncle for a month and change because the house she rents is someone's vacation house and they want to use it right now) owns a big black pit. So [KJ] met the pit while we were at the uncle's place (both before and after we went to the beach).

[12:41] First encounter of baby and big black pit:

Dog: *SLURP SLURP*
Baby: *dubious ew-face*

[12:43] Second encounter:

Baby: *cautious, crawling approach*
Dog: *sits up perkily* HIHIHI.
Baby: *sits up sharply, starts to wail in terror* *crawls for me* HUGS PLS NAO SCAAAAARED.

[12:44] Chunks of much of the rest of the afternoon:

Dog: HIHI?
Baby: *pulls back, stares*
Dog: ... aw. *wanders off*

[12:45] Evening:

Dog: HI?
Baby: ... you look maybe pettable. Hrm.

[12:46] Before we left:

Dog: *flop on floor*
Baby: *cautious crawling approach*
Dog: *still flopping*
Baby: ... there's a dog in my way. *crawls around dog, sits at dog's head* I HAS A GLEE.
Dog: Whuh?

(That was yesterday, when we went down to the Cape.)