A girl needs a dog.  The pictures above were taken by my daughter. Our dog is a patient and beloved photo model.   A friend recently told me the story of her son at circle time (what the Americans call Show and Tell). She had gone into to Parents’ Evening and the moment her son’s teacher saw her, the teacher started to weep. My friend was alarmed, and thought that her son had been doing something very wrong in school. The teacher tried to compose herself, but all she could manage to say, between sobs was, “A boy … needs… a doooooog”. Apparently, each week when…