XPost: rec.pets.dogs.behavior, alt.animals.dog, alt.med.veterinary   
   XPost: rec.pets.dogs.health   
   From: buttercupsdad@dog.net   
      
   Good Morning Puppy Wizard (Prophet, whatever).   
      
       I am going to claim ignorance to some extent.  I do have some   
   understanding of what you are talking about (a little bit at least).  For   
   example, I do know that dogs do not "hate".  That is a human emotion   
   (anthropomorphism is projecting human qualities to inanimate objects, but   
   what is the word for doing that with animals?).  When it comes to reading   
   what is in the dog's head, or correctly interpreting the dog's behavior, I   
   think you overestimate the ability of others to do that.  I do have an   
   insight into what you are talking about because I have seen what you talk   
   about here in action to some extent.  The guy where we take the dog for   
   boarding seems to be able to establish an uncanny bond with the animals.   
   When we go there my dog runs up to him which is something she does not do   
   with anyone else including me.  I guess that tells you something, doesn't   
   it?  Makes me feel pretty small I can tell you.  He also gets her to do   
   things that she has never done before and that she does not do elsewhere.   
      
       Anyway, I do think a lot about what mistakes we are making with the dog,   
   which was supposed to be my wife's dog by the way, but we are both dog   
   lovers (I like all animals).  I may has well come clean and let the world   
   know that we did have an electronic fence at one time for our last dog.  But   
   I promise you that I will not do that again.   
      
       Better get to work.  The bills need paying and Buttercup needs a new   
   leash....   
      
   David S.   
      
   P.S.  And I promise to read your free training manual when I can get time to   
   do it.  Holding down a job has kind of taken priority these days it seems.   
   No time for other activities.   
      
      
    wrote in message   
   news:1123339865.017530.57140@z14g2000cwz.googlegroups.com...   
   HOWEDY David S.,   
      
      
      
   > Our last dog hated bicycles.   
      
   INDEED? "HATED," David S.?   
      
   DOGS DO NOT HAVE THE CAPACITY TO HATE, David S..   
   DOGS ONLY KNOW SAFE / UNSAFE / COMFORTABLE / UNCOMFORTABLE.   
      
   YOUR DOG FEARED BICYCLES on accHOWENT OF MISHANDLING,   
   you may feel FREE to CALL THAT ABUSE, if you PREFER   
   to use the accurate scientific terminology.   
      
      
      
   PERHAPS THAT'S HOWE COME you FEAR DOGS, otherWIZE   
   there's NO EXXXCUSE for your own dog to FEAR bicycles   
   and for you to be POSTING HERE abHOWETS, David S..   
      
   You've been an ENIGMA to The Amazing Puppy Wizard, David S.,   
   on accHOWENT Of your brief posted case history does NOT FIT   
   the PROFILE of a LYING DOG ABUSING MENTAL CASE, David S..   
      
      
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)