Tomorrow's Good Friday
Mar. 29th, 2018 07:41 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
conulySo I guess it's more or less been a year since we've had Finn for good!
He runs now! Like, all four feet off the floor! And he plays sometimes! And he doesn't growl (except very rarely) if you touch his back end! Obvious improvements in his behavior and demeanor are farther apart now, and more subtle, but that just shows the huge progress he's made since he came to us. Truly, I will never forgive those people.
Now, when Moonpie plays with a toy, her goal is to utterly destroy it. She chomps it and shakes it and chomps it and attacks it with her front paws and then she chomps some more. Finn chases it, chomps it a bit, and drops it again. Then he comes back for his snuggles. At first, Jenn and I thought maybe he just wasn't as interested as Moonpie is, that he was more interested in pleasing us than in play for its own sake. Then I realized we're very silly. Finn is a poodle. Poodles are water dogs. Water dogs are retrievers, specifically, they retrieve fowl from the water. He's not bored - he's playing fetch!
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He runs now! Like, all four feet off the floor! And he plays sometimes! And he doesn't growl (except very rarely) if you touch his back end! Obvious improvements in his behavior and demeanor are farther apart now, and more subtle, but that just shows the huge progress he's made since he came to us. Truly, I will never forgive those people.
Now, when Moonpie plays with a toy, her goal is to utterly destroy it. She chomps it and shakes it and chomps it and attacks it with her front paws and then she chomps some more. Finn chases it, chomps it a bit, and drops it again. Then he comes back for his snuggles. At first, Jenn and I thought maybe he just wasn't as interested as Moonpie is, that he was more interested in pleasing us than in play for its own sake. Then I realized we're very silly. Finn is a poodle. Poodles are water dogs. Water dogs are retrievers, specifically, they retrieve fowl from the water. He's not bored - he's playing fetch!
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Discovery of MRSA-busting antibiotic gives hope against resistant superbugs
Misestimating travel times may stop people from walking or biking to work (Anecdotally, it's not just travel times but distances. A trip of a mile suddenly becomes three or four miles when you suggest walking it to a person who is used to driving.)
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