Another place Chico is welcome is my wonderful credit union, Woodlands Credit Union. He’s so well behaved that the tellers often don’t even know he’s there. But the branch manager always does. And she always has a cookie for him.

Chico just sat for the bank manager. He knows she has a cookie in her right hand and he is wondering if a sit is enough to earn him that cookie.

Every time Chico goes somewhere and has a positive experience,he improves in an incremental way. In the beginning of our time together I would remind him that the world is a kind and loving place. After almost two years, he seems to be starting to believe it.