What I Have Learned About Dogs From Chick
This is Chick, the first dog I've ever had.
This is Chick as a puppy, she looked more like a pit then, less like a lab. That's why we chose her. This was long before she fulfilled her destiny as cat poop detective.
Max with Chick before the exhausting squabbling began. Soon scientists are going to discover that a puppy's DNA is almost identical to human children's DNA, which will explain a lot.What I learned About Dogs From Chick
- That true joy is just a roll-in-a-rotten-duck-egg away.
2. That people aren't a whole lot smarter than dogs: when I say to someone "My dog
isn't friendly, don't touch her" people think I'm really saying "Please try to become
my dog's best friend"
- To keep people from touching a timid dog it is necessary to be emphatic: "My dogis part pit bull and may, without warning, rip you apart from limb to limb even though all other dogs on the planet love you. She has already mauled your neighbor." This approach, I have found, doesn't really work either. Like I said, people aren't a whole lot smarter than dogs.
- Cat poop is to dogs what truffles are to pigs. When in the presence of such a deli-cacy it is difficult for dogs to decide whether it would be better to eat it or roll in it.
- Though dogs particularly love to eat other animals' poop, they will eat absolutelyanything, and generally: everything.
- Raising a dog is EXACTLY like adopting a child into your family. Except that it'san animal that will develop very sharp K-9 teeth and has to be trained to poop outside and will never go to college.
7. Dogs, when they are not rolling in revolting substances have a natural grace of limb which is a beautiful thing to watch.
8. That I have a lot in common with dogs is both surprising (as a life-long cat person)
and a bit humbling. (I am incorrigibly curious, I judge most people first with my
nose, I need a very firm routine to feel comfortable, and I don't like people getting
overly familiar or physical with me until we get to know each other, but happily this never entails me sniffing their bottoms.)
- In spite of my newfound appreciation for dogs, having one has confirmed what Ihave always known: dogs are not smarter than cats. Trainability is NOT synony-mous with intelligence.
- Some dogs have skill in food preservation: just like people have buried fish and leftThem to ferment into ripe carcasses, some dogs have learned the art of burying bones and anything else they scavenge and retrieving them only after they have developed a patina and scent that only a dog-and some Norwegian's-can love. (There's just such a blackened gem floating around my house even as I write this.)