Kazan is used to standing out in a crowd. The black Russian terrier is no lap dog.
"He's just a huge, big, humongous teddy bear," Max Baily Gibson says.
The 7-year-old was fascinated by Kazan, part of the Canine Friends Pet Therapy contingent who visited Roslyn Library last Friday.
Kazan is named after a city in southwest Russia, on the banks of the Volga and Kazanka rivers.