Or however the quote goes.
Yesterday was mainly concerned with emptying the house of all personage besides myself and the dog (who counts as a person, if a rather lazy one). However, it was discovered that we'd temporarily acquired a second dog, in that someone's pet had decided that the garage would make a dandy place to rest from the hot Florida sun. It wasn't a stray (strays don't generally have new-looking collars) but some idiot had forgot to buy tags for it. So we just gave the wayward critter some water and let it lounge about. Our own dog, Janie, is rather old and basically didn't care (although, like most pets, she became possessively co-dependant whenever the 'intruder' wanted to play. Or get into the house (or the car) which it tried to do on occasion.
Dogs are far too trusting, at least when they're young. There's nothing more endearingly, trustingly co-dependant than a young dog. Play nicely with any amenable dog and you're that dog's New Best Friend. Feed it a few times and you've made a friend for life or at least as long as the neurons holding your scent-pattern hold out, which, given the kind of chemical crud most dogs cheerfully snork down, may not be all that long.
Dogs are not idiots, of course. Well, most dogs, anyway. But any dog of average or larger size is capable of being smart, it's just that there's not a lot of call for smart dogs in the 'fetch the ball' set. Before they become old and surly, most dogs will take what you do at face value. If you go out walking with a dog, the dog will generally trust that you'll not wander off and leave it there if it takes a detour to nose around in someone's garbage. Making a dog run frantically around trying pathetically to figure out where you've gone to is a cruel thing to do. Besides, it makes the dog rather neurotic, and this is generally a bad thing.
No point to this one, really. Everyone needs a good babble on occasion.
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