Tuesday, April 28, 2026

DAILY DOGGIE - APR 28, 2026 (by Carlene White)

Dd 4 28  wow 28. How did we get to the end of the month so quickly ???..
 
Gwen has arrived in the middle of yesterday having gotten tangled up with commuting traffic in Albany at 7:00 AM and then Boston commuting traffic on 1/28 a couple hours later so she's studying time versus traffic.
 
Janine got here later then we expected because she too got tangled up in Albany traffic thanks to following her computer directions. Somehow I wish at this younger generation would at least have a look at a printed map and get the general idea of where they're going.. The worst case scenario is Judy who can't approach route one and not understand which way is the Atlantic Ocean... I can Remember when I was very young. There was a game similar to monopoly. Where you had toothpicks in a map of the United states and you worked against l the timer to put toothpicks in all the states-- cities—big things  like Mississippi river. ---whatever of any specific letter This younger generation could really stand that game to at least get their bearings about big things like North Pole and South Pole or as in my specific case Maine versus Florida.
 
However now that both of them are here I have a very complete list of things I must not talk about in the daily doggy .
 
I find it very interesting that Gwen who works on a computer all day keeps a second monitor running -- not with our cameras-- but with an explore camera focused on  an eagle nest where two eggs have hatched.  I think this is a description ohh many of our goldies warriors.. Where they get enjoyment out of having a camera running in the background which is not tremendously exciting but just providing a general interest - I don't know how else to explain why 170 people. Would watch yesterdays mail call... where we had not very exciting news--- With the possible exception of the fact that Janine was due to arrive with the pig. That was exciting and it starts a new phase of trying to understand how and why of the mind of a pig-- and so far all I have to report is the fact that yes when brought in the door and turned loose with my dogs it behaved just like another dog..  With the possible exception ohh it does not seem to have any instinct to put its nose down to try and find food because if I have a nice piece of watermelon on a fork he will come over and grab it beautifully but if I drop it it's a federal project the trying to describe to him to put his nose down and find the food I dropped. The same thing was evident when Justin hand fed sally Our freely roaming Turkey when she was thrilled to eat the canned corn out of his hand but when he dropped a few and pointed at it with his toe   as you would do with a dog Sally had no instinct to see what his foot was doing at all.
 
Now that doesn't sound monumental—eexcept in our business if you'll call it a business we have to provide animals that have been introduced to the concept a big hand fed.. -- Sally had no instinct to look at the end of his toe for some dropped corn-- but very readily followed his hand as he reached down to point at it.. Believe it or not that is one of the the things we have to do before we take an animal into a nursing home environment. We need to get our animals totally focused on.. Hopefully a small frying pan as the source our snack..
 
Doesn't sound like much-- but it's one of the things that your $10 donations have to be spent on-- in order for us to provide perfect visits of animals. Their Basic Instinct must be to seek a treat out of a frying pan.. Instead of any patient hands.
 
With the variety of animals we have that are now what I call elevator proof... It has taken a significant amount of time to get that focus on the pan.
 
Now just think about that for a while--  to a Pig the tapping of a toe add a piece of watermelon has absolutely no meaning

 

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