Guard dog.

Found it!

Been a while, hasn't it?  Well, put it down to a small crisis of "vision".  Or laziness.  As in this photograph.  Why get up from the kitchen table when you can just put your book down and take a picture?  The book, by the way, is Richard Ford's latest, "Canada" (which explains the file name).  Pretty good so far.  Of course, I've been partial to his writing for a long time, so I could be accused of prejudice.  But I don't think so.  He's just a very good writer.