Jul. 23rd, 2014

Dog Update

Jul. 23rd, 2014 09:31 am
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Pogi hasn't run away when off-leash. At the spot where he is released, Halo and I stop. Pogi will go out a bit and the look back, probably wanting us to follow him. When we don't, he goes to the creek and hunts in the high weeds at the edge for a while, and then comes back to us.

He could go for a run, as long as he doesn't disappear, but hunting is his favorite thing, and that's what floats his boat.

Halo is off leash for a much longer period, but he walks a short distance ahead of us, focused on sniffing for canine evidence and marking his territory. He takes side trips in and out of the irrigation canal to wade in the shallow water.

There is a new little black dog where three bad pitbulls used to be. He's loose all the time but not dangerous. Halo, especially, likes him, and makes friendly overtures. The owner got rid of all the pitbulls, and said they were sort of foisted on him by friends who couldn't keep them anymore. One of them had been found in an abandoned house. They wouldn't mind him, and I saw them once attack a cowboy on a horse, and once all three came at us, until I pepper-sprayed them. I think everyone is breathing a sigh of relief that they're gone.

My dogs are good around horses. They get excited when one comes by the house, but don't act aggressively. Pogi doesn't jump the fence. The other day some very young boys were playing right outside, and I realized Halo is more comfortable with younger kids, and doesn't feel the need to guard, like he does with adolescent kids.
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I'm reading reviews of Bob Dylan videos and old Japanese monster movies, and wonder if we're assigning too much meaning to these things. Reviewers go way out seeing and analyzing symbolic elements, probably farther than the original directors went themselves. There was a time in the 60's and 70's when lots of rock songs were given abstract lyrics, and again, some fans read to much into what were really just silly songs.
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It's the first novel of the series, but fantasy is not my genre. I'm reading it because the HBO series is so popular, and I know next to nothing about the phenomena. I get Westeros mixed up with Juggalos. I'm really clueless about pop music, and I've never watched scores of TV shows that people talk about (like: How I Met Your Mother, and Friends, Dr. Who, ect, ect)

I'll finish this book, but probably won't continue to the other novels. With a fantasy world, I miss the connection to reality. I don't mind historic fiction because, at least, it's grounded in real world events.

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