Spotting the Difference.

I met a little dog in Ashbourne today – a Staffordshire Bull Terrier puppy with a rotund profile and a puggish sort of face. His male human companion had his back to me, but the puppy wanted to make friends and was very cute.

I saw him again later in the pet shop, and this time he was with both human companions: one male and one female, presumably husband and wife. I got a good look at them the second time, and, by an odd coincidence, they were both rotund in profile too. They also both had puggish faces. And yet for some reason which I couldn’t quite discern, they weren’t even remotely cute.