People say that their young dogs learn good things from the old dogs.
I'm not sure that my young dogs have ever learned anything from their elders that I really *wished* they would learn..........
Sophie was hell on ... golf clubs.
(I photographed prints to show you these images, hence the abysmal quality.....)
She also liked to bite water poured into the bathtub from a glass.....
Buzz picked up both of these things, with verve. I've stopped pouring water into the tub for him, as he seems to get some of it down the wrong pipe *every* time, and then hack it back up.....
He can hear a golf club in the family room from dead asleep upstairs, and goes roaring down to attack any time a putter clicks against a ball. Makes it hard to practice putting.
Not exactly a useful behavior we can be glad he acquired from observation.....
The news is that he has extrapolated to tennis racquets.
Sophie was a driven and focused retriever. No ball moved, anywhere in her sphere, without her, right there, to fetch it up. I remember taking her exactly once to a softball game. She was nuts. Every time a ball was hit, she went crazy at the end of the leash, barking uncontrollably....... We let her go after the ball a few times after the game was over. The first time it took her several tries to pick up the ball -- big ball, not so big mouth....... Once she had it figured out, she did a good job of retrieving it........ I don't think we'll give the big boy a chance to see how he feels about bats and softballs, given his focus on golf clubs and tennis racquets...........
2 comments:
I love the whole progression - makes me miss ol' puppy sophie, chasing ropes the wrong way. I am glad Buzz is happy and energetic enough to want to attack things!
Thanks for the compliments on the pictures... I am trying! Alaska last summer helped me prepare a lot about thinking about taking pictures - remembering that the things that you see but tend to ignore (glass reflections, cars, etc.) are very much in a picture. Also the fact that something far in the distance or mostly covered by trees will be a picture of sky or trees, respectively, not the actual subject that is so prominent in real life.
I am en train d'un autre poste. A bientot!
Sophie surely knew what she thought was important!
And -- Amen that Buzz feels so good.
So true that what we notice when we look at something in real life can be very different from what we see when looking at a pic. Thinking about that, and stepping to the side to evade some window glare, or moving a very pale maple seed that is a bright spot on the ground behind the flower we mean to focus on can help........
And sometimes, something that I would have evaded, had I thought to, turns out to be my favorite thing about an image. Not often, but sometimes............
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