Pet, although never get any food, touch, attention, always love to sit near as it might feel safe.
Monks would gain a transgression if joyfully touching even animals, or rejoice with touch, so usually one certain either withdraws, gives signs of disagree or very mindful untouched and non-touching.
Standing in front of Nyom Langs house, one of the dogs, as if tracing, lend his body on the foot, where an old broken part causes pain when cold. Lying there till moving on. The "pain", tension, got absorbed, heal.
That's a common known thing, that cats and dogs often go after the merits of healing of bodily pain.
Some who traced such, in the past, in crazy manner, went after gain of cat-skins for rheumatism, as if such where a material matter...
Worthy to rejoice with the 'unconscious' merits by healing done by doggy.