I
tried to tell him that this is no way to treat the ladies, but he is
a dog, you know?
Tuesday, May 10, 2016
Oh, It's Only You.
My
old dog learned a new trick, or at least it is not something I have
seen him do before. He is a watch dog as opposed to a guard dog.
The difference being that while he will raise a fuss about someone
approaching his territory he does not actually pose a threat to
anyone who enters his territory. He is all bluff and bluster, or to
put a more positive spin on it I suppose you could say he performs the
function of an intrusion alarm. Yesterday we were sitting out in the
back yard when he saw two ladies walking on the road above our
property. He let out a prefatory growl followed by his distinctively
beagle “Woo! Woo! Woo! He continued barking as he charged our
fence with his usual bravado. But when the ladies were directly in
front of him he did something extraordinary, he stopped barking.
Without so much as a whisper or the merest a flick of a tail wag he
looked those ladies straight in the eyes, sat down, and yawned at
them. It was as if he were saying “Oh, it's only you.”
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