(Crikey, there’s such low readership today! Wish I knew why.)
Someday the lion and the lamb will lie down together. In the meantime, dogs and bunnies can play and cuddle together.
Who would’ve thought it? Like, dogs eat rabbits, right? Maybe we’re getting a glimpse into what God has in store for His whole creation.
Barking at inanimate objects. Having a showdown with your reflection in the mirror. Openly defying the menace of a squeaky toy. What gives with puppies? Where do they get all that energy?
Not from me, that’s for sure.
I can easily imagine my mother’s horrified outburst at walking into the dining room and finding the rabbit and the dog on the table.
It’s extraordinary, though, that dogs and bunnies can play together without the bunny getting eaten. It’s because animals are smart enough to learn ways of life that owe nothing to their supposed “instincts”–if there even is such a thing, which I’m beginning to doubt. The only thing typical about animals is the ease with which they break out of typical.
My neighbor has two little pug dogs, a brother and a sister. She was taking them for a walk one day when a loose German shepherd attacked them and took a chunk out of the male; but his sister, about one-sixth the attacker’s size, speedily avenged her brother, going at the big dog like a fury and driving it away. You’ve just got to love a little dog with such a big heart! Her name is Alex, but I call her Braveheart.
Cats and dogs get up to a lot of funny things. If we carefully examine these behaviors, applying a scientific something or other, they look, well, silly. Why do cats and dogs do silly things? I mean, if you had a pet starfish, it wouldn’t do anything silly.
Something’s going on inside those little furry heads–and we just might never find out what it is.
I am, of course, referring to an eruption of cuteness, so there is no cause for alarm.
Dogs at the table–my mother would plotz. My grandmother would feed them. Guess which one used to be a farm girl.
Who says turtles can’t learn anything? Watch the tortoise follow the cat out the pet door. “Oh! So that’s what that thing is for!” And if you were thinking of setting up a rumpus room for dogs… don’t. Unless you really enjoy tidying up.
What do your dogs get up to when you aren’t home?
In Lakeview, Minnesota, recently, two dogs–a hound and a papillon–called 911 five times. The local police dispatcher couldn’t quite make head nor tail of it, so two officers were sent to the house to check it out. “All they could hear in the background was dogs barking,” said one of the officers (http://www.fox5ny.com/news/-ruff-day-for-lakeville-dogs-that-called-911-five-times).
How did the dogs know to dial 911?
It seems the owner left his cell phone set for emergency calls only. He also left it in reach of the dogs. All they had to do was play with the cell phone until they managed to hit the call button. When the police dispatcher answered, all they could do was bark.
We are not told what the officers expected to find when they got there, but we may safely conjecture that they were relieved to find it was only a pair of playful pups.
It could be worse. They could have ordered a raft of pizzas.
And that’s the nooze for today! All the nooze I feel like covering, at least.
Dogs crave our approval, and it’s obvious they understand when they’re being rebuked, however mildly. Yes, they’re smart: you’d almost swear they speak English. So then why aren’t they smart enough not to make a shambles of your living room? That’s one for the Durants. Meanwhile, you never have this problem with a pet turtle.
When the drones and robots do try to take over, our first line of defense will be our cats and dogs, plus the odd bird or two. Our pets will not stand idly by while the human race is supplanted by machines. They’ve got a good gig going and they don’t want to lose it.