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Have you ever gotten the feeling that your animal partner or some other animal that you've known very well had taught you an important lesson in life? I think this will be a very interesting topic thread, and I bet that many of you have had interesting experiences with your canines. Oh, by the way, this topic thread need not be limited to dogs by any means. If you feel that another animal, perhaps your cat, horse, pig has also taught you a lesson of some kind, please feel free to share your anecdotes here. I've felt many times that both Blazer my guide dog and companion from 1990 to 2003, and Shadoe my room mate's Australian cattle dog taught me plenty of lessons about their intelligence and intuitive nature. I actually received my first lesson from Blazer while still in training at the guide dog school that I was attending. The way that Canine Vision was set up, there was a suite of two rooms on each side with a bathroom in the middle. One day a whole pocket full of change dropped out of my pocket when I was using the toilet. I suppose I could have gotten down on my hands and knees to hunt for the change, but I figured that the janitors would probably pick it up and ask who it belonged to. If they didn't, oh well, it was only change. I went back to the bedroom and started reading a talking book on cassette tape, but I was vaguely aware of an occasional clink, clinking sound. I didn't think much about it until something made me put my hand on the bed, and I couldn't believe what I found. There on the bed was a whole pile of change. Blazer had gone back and forth to the bathroom several times and picked up the coins, two or thre at a time and put them in a pile on the bed so that I wouldn't lose them. This was one of the first lessons that Blazer taught me about his common sense and intuitive nature. How the hell could I not love this dog? It takes a good year of being around your dog before you begin to understand what he is trying to tell you. In the early stages of working together, there are always bound to be mistakes, and here's an interesting story about me working Blazer up to the local grocery store.It was February of 1991 and although Blazer and I worked well together, I didn't fully trust and understand him yet. Mary wanted me to go up and get some cream for coffee and a couple of other groceries at the grocery store. We had just had a snowstorm, and there were about six inches of snow on the ground. We were walking up the sidewalk at a pretty good clip, when Blazer began to veer to the right, taking me off the sidewalk and into the grass. I stopped him, pulled him back and said, "OK Blazer, I know that it all looks white to you, and you probably don't know the difference between the sidewalk and the grass with all this snow on top of it. But you're supposed to stay on the sidewalk, not take me over into the grass. Now, lets try it again." So, this time Blazer walked straight ahead like I wanted him to, but he walked extremely slowly and just took a couple of steps, and then waited for my ankle to hit the shopping cart that was over turned in the middle of the sidewalk. I felt a mixture of stupidity and pride. I felt very stupid for what I had done, but pride that Blazer had tried to take me around this obstacle in the first place. In a very happy voice, I said to Blazer, "Oh I'm sorry, your master is stupid, and you know what? You were right all the time. You're a very very good boy." His tail immediately started wagging as if to say, "See, I knew what I was doing. There was a reason that I did that, it's not that I didn't know the difference between the sidewalk and the grass." God, he must have thought I was real stupid sometimes. So, what about the rest of you. Do you have any similar stories about a lesson that you may have learned from a pet of yours?
One of the most important things my pets taught me is that sex with them is emminently preferable to sex with humans.LTD
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my cat taught me that EVERYTHING IS FREAKING AWESOME. and to lay on plastic bags whenever possible
my animals have taught me lots of things, I'll tell some of the highlights on a roughly chronnological order:as a small kid and with a K9 that didn't particularly liked me...I asked my father to allow me to walk him by the leash (he hated being on the line), I said "I am an EXPERT dog walker!", as he heard that he started running away (with me holding the leash still, and dragged me two or three houses !), lesson Thou shalt not be proud...the same dog saved us (the whole bunch, my brother, my dad and me) from two agressive dogs, he took controll of the first while my dad kept the otherone at bay with a bicicle. that talked about loyaltya female cat that I loved had kittens, the very next day she gave birth to them I went to pet her and she took one of them and placed it in my hand, that showed me a word or two about trusting...The handsome guy in my avatar showed me a thing or two about intelligence, when he was younger we took him to a relative's house, and afterwards we wanted to go walking arround, he wanted to come with us but we had thought he would only get into trouble... young puppy in a foreign environment... so we tried to lock him in this house, he tried one or two times to go trough the door that we had just closed (it had a window), and I saw him stop triying he bent his head a little and remembered another way out of the house, I admit he was smarter and thought faster than me, we took him arround there are more, but that would be hogging the thread...
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