Humans are good at lots of things, but there are a few
that they really should just leave in the hands of dogs. One of those is playing fetch and we just discovered
that another is bird chasing.
There is a big field near our kennel where there are a
lot of big birds called geese. They are
particularly messy which upsets the humans who go there to play when they aren’t
out earning dog biscuits. My dearly
departed older brother, Bowmore and I tried once to help persuade them to leave
by chasing them which would have been very effective had Mummy not growled at
us and made us get back in the motorized dog carrier.
Last week our humans took us with them to see how they chase
geese. We climbed in one of a long line of boxes attached to each other that were pulled by a big black tube with a chimney at the front. The line of
boxes took us around the field in search of geese, and sure enough, there were
still lots of them which isn’t very surprising.
A row of boxes pulled by a black tube really isn’t very scary. Whilst I understand that for humans who are fundamentally
lazy, this is a good way of searching for geese while they are sitting down, they will never persuade them to leave if they don’t ask the black tube to stop
so they can jump out of their boxes and start chasing.
Talisker
Truman invited us over this evening for a casual game of
fetch and to view what he thinks is his new giant outdoor dog water bowl. You have to understand that although Truman’s
mother was a fish retriever like us, he really hasn’t inherited the water gene. I pointed out to him that it is not a water
bowl, but a dog spa. He didn’t believe
me so of course I had to demonstrate. I
admit it is a little tight and obviously has a one dog capacity, but it felt
pretty good so I stand by my original observation … definitely a dog spa.
