What do dogs dream of? Yes, they do have dreams; you can tell by their sometime twitches and moans while they’re sleeping, their sometimes strange response to us in their first moments after waking. By their long association with people, perhaps at times they dream they are – people, themselves. And are you, readers, perhaps dogs asleep even now, dreaming that... [Click ‘Random Post’ above – be astonished] … [Read more...]
“The Wag” / Memorable Fancies #1545
24 May, 2016 by Leave a Comment
All you beagles look alike here; how do you tell each other apart? We wag. How? Like a semaphore. Each of us has a different tailwag; mine is up down down left. That must be tiring. Yes, but I was lucky. The young ones now – the pack has become so large they have to do eight or nine tailwags, just so we can tell them apart. That must take a long time. No, we usually don’t wait for them to finish. We really don’t care whose butt we’re sniffing, anyway. … [Read more...]
“What the Dogs Know” / Memorable Fancies #150
3 November, 2012 by Leave a Comment
In the middle of the night a dog howls. Then another, then many others. I and other townspeople are awakened by the din. Gradually, one by one, we begin to howl too, and continue until morning. “Now I understand my dog,” a friend tells me the next day, “how deeply it has seen into reality without the curse of language.” I nod my head and wait for the night. … [Read more...]
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