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Amen to that, Cheeseking! In this case, it's more like finding a $100 bill in the pocket of a coat you forgot you owned! LOLGotta love that. Kinda like finding a $20 bill in the pocket of a coat you haven't worn since last spring
I write it off as one in an increasingly frequent and all too common string of "senior moments." Getting old[er] sucks.
Years ago, taught my Great Dane Frisco to bark when I said "speak" and then to howl when I said "sing." Later, around his fifth year, I was full into middle age and feeling it. He was always a vocally expressive dog with the full range of barks and howls and murmurs and whines and even what we refer to as "talking." He had one that sounded like a sigh mixed with a low howl, and so when he made that sound, I'd start telling him: "Frisco, getting old sucks." Over time, he associated the two, and I could speak that line and he'd respond accordingly. Over time, he got to where if I repeated it, he'd start out low and build to a sad howl.
He and his brother turned ten in June, and now he's feeling his age, and there seems more sincerity in his response.
You be the judge:
Ignoring that Maggie(the pup) had to stick her butt in the frame, do you get the feeling he means it?
Thanks!
Mark