Mark4510
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Mar 1, 2006, 6:00 PM
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How do you train away curiosity...
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I was just getting off my Derby horse and the wife was about done with her aged horse when our lab mutt (aka Pester) came down to the arena and just sat there with that classic hang dog look. Now mind you Pester came to use on a really cold freezing rain morning with a collar he had long before grown into. It was so tight I could not get a finger between it and him without choking him. He was shaking with cold and covered with fleas and ticks although I don’t know what they were feasting on as he was just a skin and bones puppy. As a result of his early days, I think he is a bit slow….in fact, he still cannot seem to figure out the difference between a lizard and a rattler or a possum and a skunk despite being on the hard lesson side of both rattlers and skunk multiple times.
I was about half way across the arena when the breeze gave me the reason Pester had been barking and, again, he seemed to have still not learned that trying to play with the cute critter with white strips is a bad thing.
So after a long day at work, 2 hours of riding on a cold blustery night I got to put on shorts and a t shirt so I could try to give Pester a multiple baths on the front lawn instead of sitting down to a nice dinner with friends. I have to admit I was ready to come untrained on Pester when it struck me that this is exactly what makes my life great. Who else gets to have a water phobic perpetual puppy lab step up on the couch and stare at you from a distance of two inches with the hopes that you will make eye contact and feel the need to pet him or scratch his ears? To me it’s not the big house, the new car, the fancy furnishings or expensive jewelry that makes life worth living. It’s the little things like seeing Pester figure out how to sit on request after 2 years of trying that put a smile on my face.
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