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Negotiating with Cookies – Aussie?
“Still trying to think of what breed to get, huh?” Fleegle says.
“Yeah, how about an Australian Shepherd?” I say.
“Have you ever seen an Aussie take a nap?”
“No.”
“Don’t you find that odd? I mean, in our daily drives around town we see lots of Labradors taking it easy in their yards all the time, napping on the front porch, napping in the sun on the front lawn.”
“Or napping in the bamboo like you.”
“Exactly, but never an Aussie. They’re always up and moving about, like they’re herding flies. Don’t underestimate the importance of a napping dog, Raud, because if your new buddy from Australia isn’t napping, neither are you, and you do love your naps.”
“Hmm… You have a point.” I scratch my head. “What about a Border Collie?”
“I’ll ask you again, have you ever seen a Border Collie take a nap? Same answer and throw in a lot of staring. They really love to stare. Have you ever tried to take a nap while someone is staring at you?”
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Negotiating with Cookies – GSD?
“Are you still thinking about it?” Fleegle asks.
“I was thinking about a German Shepherd,” I say.
“I don’t think the UPS guy would like that and you need to keep the UPS guy happy because he brings me fun stuff. Same goes for the mailman and woman. They carry biscuits.”
“But I love German Shepherds. They’re really smart.”
“And you’re going to look really smart behind your new vacuum cleaner that you’ll have to get to stay on top of the shedding. They’re not called German Shedders for nothing.”
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Negotiating with Cookies – How About a Pug, Fleegle?
“So have you finished thinking about what breed to get so we can get on with it?” Fleegle asks.
“You mean, what kind of puppy we should get?” I ask.
“A dog puppy, of course. It’s not like there are cat puppies.”
“No, I mean what breed of puppy should we get. I’m thinking about a pug.”
“Well, you keep on thinking about thinking on that one,” Fleegle says.
“Why? Don’t you like pugs?”
“I love pugs, but have you ever seen one clean its butt?”
“Um, no.”
“Exactly. I’m not sure they can reach it with their round little bodies and big bellies, and I don’t want to live with a dog nicknamed Stinky Butt, and you know how highly I value good grooming.”
“So that’s what you call all that loud goobering on yourself you do at 3AM.”
“Did I mention they snore? I’m a mouse in comparison.”
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Negotiating with Cookies – Talking About Talking
While sitting in the backyard on a sunny afternoon, Fleegle drops his slobber covered tennis ball in my lap for the umpteenth time. I pick up the ball with two fingers and toss it to him. “Fleegle, you know how you’ve been asking me about getting a puppy?”
He catches the ball but spits it out. “Oh boy, are we getting one today? Let’s go,” he says, his front paws bouncing on the ground.
“Well, I’ve decided it might be time to start to actually give the idea some real thought,” I say calmly.
He stops bouncing. “Huh? As opposed to the fake thought you already started giving it?”
“Um, yes.”
“So we’re not going today to get a puppy, but today you’re going to start thinking about getting a puppy? This is like when the guys on the car radio start talking about what they’re going to talk about. I thought you hated that.”
“I do. It drives me crazy. They spend more time talking about what they’re going to talk about than about it itself. It’s totally boring. Like they tell me all about the weather report they’re going to give at the top of the hour and in the time they take to tell me that, they could’ve just given me the weather report.”
Fleegle nose bumps the ball toward me. “So you want to start thinking about what you’re going to do instead of just doing it?”
“This is different.”
“Maybe to someone who is brainwashed by listening all day to people talk about what they’re going to talk about, but not to someone who does things when he wants to do them and doesn’t need to think about it first, let alone talk about it first.”
I pick up the ball and toss it. He catches it in the air. “This coming from a dog that would jump out a second story window after a ball.”
He spits the ball out in my lap. “I would not.”
“There’s a reason we live in a one story house, and that’s because I thought about it first.”
“But what if there was a swimming pool below that second story window. Think of all the fun to be had there.”
I toss the ball for Fleegle to catch, but he doesn’t move and it bounces on the ground behind him and rolls to a stop. “Raud, I think it’s time I give it some real thought about going and retrieving that tennis ball, but first let’s sit down and discuss it, let’s talk about what we’re going to say about the ball and the fetching of the ball.”
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Fat Bike Ready for Dogs and Sand
The dogs and I went to the Oregon Coast last Saturday. We road on the sand at Nehalem Bay State Park. Back home in Aloha, I brazed on more water bottle mounts on the forks. Maybe I need to braze on a mount for a water bowl too.
Here is a close up of the Walky Dog for using in crowded areas with traffic between where we park the car and the beach.
Gnawing the Bone 