I am convinced that they do. I have had several incidences with Penny and Jester that strongly suggest to me that while I thought I had rescued them, they were actually the ones doing the rescuing! Take the other day, I was standing with them in their field and Penny started to sniff me, which isn’t unusual. But then she focused on my left knee. She sniffed intently and then started likcing my knee. She would lick, then yawn, then sniff then lick again. This ritual went on for several minutes until my jods were wet through. Every so often she would sniff up my body and around my head and then go back to my knee. Finally she clearly decided her work was done, one last body scan with the sniffing and she wandered off to eat grass. Meanwhile Jester had just stood next to us, dozing and holding the space. They really are amazing creatures and we miss so much of what they have to offer us in our busy, whizzy rushing about lives.