Despite Olive’s commentary in the last posting, she has been
just wonderful with my tree. It doesn’t seem to bother her that it is in my
living room, nor does the smaller artificial tree in my dining room window seem
to bother her. If she has even noticed the existence of the ornaments, she
makes no attempt to get at them. I had been apprehensive about how she would
react to having trees and other decorations in the house, but needn’t have
worried.
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As I have posted before, Olive and I are taking “Family Dog
II” obedience class. Last the instructor had us do something new. We humans have
been working on having our dogs come to us when we call. Last night the
instructor put a number of obstacles and distractions between the dogs and
their humans. A mechanical rabbit that jumped around, for example. Another was
a mechanical toy of three cats singing “Jolly Old St. Nicholas”. Various other
toys were scattered around. When it was Olive’s turn she began running straight
to me when I called her, at first ignoring all of the distractions. Well, as
she got near me she suddenly noticed a toy, stopped to pick it up. She started running
toward me again, then stopped and ran back a short way as if to say “look what
I found—let’s play!” I must be getting used to Olive doing such things in
class, as I was amused and started laughing. She finally did come to me, with
the toy of course. I think that the instructor and the rest of the class were
amused as well. I took the toy from her and replaced it in the “obstacle course”
before the next dog had his turn.
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As this is our last posting before Christmas, Olive and I
thought we would pass to you as a sort of a Christmas gift one of my favorite
Christmas cartoons (from the 1930s) via You Tube. An eccentric inventor (who
some might recognize as Betty Boop’s grandfather) saves Christmas for a group
of neglected children at a badly run orphanage. I like the way that the cartoon
morphs at the end into a pitch for Christmas Seals, which I am guessing would
have been for sale in the theater lobby. Enjoy!
Christmas Comes but Once a Year
Have a great Holiday!
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