Uh Oh Another Beautiful Morning

[robinmckinley]

 
 I have to remind myself that there have been lots of beautiful mornings lately and we’ve only had infelicitous adventures on a few of them.
            So we woke up this morning to sunlight which was exciting enough (even if the inside of the leaky kitchen door looks a little curlier than it did before last night’s rain). And having got off a

Comments

[jonquil]

"was beginning to feel like an involuntary re-enactment of The Most Dangerous Game"

Happy, happy giggles. Carry on.

[robinmckinley]

I hope you don't mind if I don't have adventures like this EVERY day.

[jonquil]

Thankee, ma'am. I consider it mighty thoughty.

When You're a Puppy

[mythusmage]

Every day is an adventure.

[tylik]

"getting out of bed in the early morning and looking out the window at the sky and thinking, ‘Ah, a beautiful day-excellent-a great day to kill things,’ is peculiar

[robinmckinley]

I kill things--or by being a carnivore require people to kill things for me--because I have decided it's 'necessary'--ie my energy level drops through the floor if I don't eat meat two or three times a week. And while I certainly kill things in the garden, because I've chosen to try and protect my plants somewhat from their predators, I'm nearly 100% organic about it, so the killing I do does tend to be pretty hands on--I kill greenfly and lily beetle and rose-leaf-eating caterpillars by squashing, for example. What I *don't* do is get out of bed on a beautiful day, look out the window and think, It's gorgeous out there! What a great day for *killing things*!

[blackbear88]

So am I the only one who read this bit of your above post, and had a sudden vision of the pheasants all crowded together under the bushes at dawn, applying war paint to their little bird faces, girding their loins for battle, and their leader telling them "Today is a good day to die..."

[robinmckinley]

Oh dear . . .

[robinmckinley]

Is it true that there is a significant percentage of whippits who find obedience training to be rather beneath them

[mythusmage]

It has been noted that the more intelligent the dog, the more independent and thus the harder to train. Smart dogs you educate instead of training. Smart dogs are also more independent, and more apt to take the initiative. You need to learn how to listen to and understand smart dogs.

[robinmckinley]

Yes. There are thick-as-two-short-planks dogs like there are humans, but a lot of 'untrainable' dogs are just dogs saying 'why should I?' Independent dogs capable of independent thought. Part of the confusion, I think, comes with ultra-trainable ALSO ultra-intelligent dogs like border collies and Alsatians who ADORE learning stuff and are HAPPY for you to teach them--in fact are LONGING for you to do so--and will get into the worst trouble if you aren't keeping them interested--and thereby convinced that *you* are pack leader.

[rosefiend]

Gaah. Sounds kind of like Missouri in deer season ... you have to walk around in that eye-searing hunter's orange hollering "I am not a deer!" so the hunters have a clue.

Very glad you got out of the way in time!

[robinmckinley]

It's still THREE DIMENSIONS. :)