Are there times your dog can make a complicated thought they're having perfectly understood to you?

My dog thinks I killed my husband!

OK, Rick’s dad is in the hospital, and Rick and I were gone all last week. Very traumatizing to the dogs. Came back on Friday, and Rick turned around and left again Saturday morning. So he’s been gone all of this week too. Very traumatizing to the dogs.

Well, my big white German Shepherd stood in front of my chair last night, as I was watching TV, and just steadily leveled her beautiful golden eyes on me for a long, long moment. In retrospect I realize it was an accusatory gaze.
Sympathetically I said, “Ah, come here Dakota.”
At which point she turned her back on me and went into the bedroom and laid down with a loud, theatrical sigh.

She still isn’t talking to me. Every time I call her her response is to go into the bedroom and lay down…even if she has to walk right by me, acting as though I wasn’t even there.

I don’t feel so protected anymore. A bugler is going to break in and Dakota’s going to say, “Do what you want to her. She killed my dad.”

I wonder if I’ll get the credit when he does come home?

Dakota