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How do we hold them?
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How do we hold our dogs? We hold them in our hands when they are born, tiny beings breathing our dreams. They fill our hearts and break them. We live along side each other, sharing intimacies and indignities, secrets we might never utter to a human soul. They show us how to laugh over and over again. And how to cry unashamedly. We teach, we learn. Both of us foolish and wise by turns. My house is run by the rhythm of the dogs in it. Their lives and needs. Animals have outnumbered people here for almost as long as I can remember. My youngster bounds through my world with the unfettered joy of a can of silly string. His presence is a kaleidoscope of neon colors erupting in all directions. My old dog is winding down, I want to slow time as she nears the end of these days we have shared since her very first breath. She came into the world struggling to breathe, and as she starts to prepare to exit, it is my turn to find my breath catching every time I look at her. We are everything to them and they to us. |
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(WARNING - this is longer than usual and the topic is death, although no one dies) When we bring a dog into our life, we know, although we try not to, that at some point we might be called upon to end their life. It is profoundly important, when having to make these literal life and death decisions, to understand that there is no objective right or wrong. When we couch these choices in terms of ‘doing the right thing’ it can infer that those who make different choices are, by definition,...
The DPU tag line, 'The art is in remembering to play' comes from an essay I wrote a number of years ago. I have printed it in this newsletter before, however, I have gained many subscribers since then, so here it is again: Dog training, we are fond of saying, is as much an art as a science. Of course it is, because we don’t keep our dogs in Skinner boxes, they live with us as family members, privy to our moods and secrets, sharing our lives intimately, in a way that precludes us from keeping...
I briefly touched on this the other day, how taking pictures can help you to become a better teacher to your dog. Since it's something that I do on an almost daily basis, I thought I would delve a little more into the topic. After all, who doesn't want to get great pictures of their dog doing stuff and who doesn't want to improve their timing? The set up The ability to clearly see and react to the exact moment a behavior is happening is the single biggest factor that separates the best...