Bill,
I remember reading a book about 35 years ago written by a very intelligent American Indian on describing his scientific method for training very intelligent, field trial winning bird dogs.
He raised bird dogs & said he paid kids in the neighborhood 20 cents an hour to play with his dogs to first make them "humanized" & to avoid kennel blindness.
He said that once in constant contact with humans, his dogs were "humanized", & they could read minds of humans & think just like humans. Few human commands were needed in training --these dogs were already human mind readers.
Further along he wrote about God's creation of stars, birds, mountains; but he said God never mentioned creating a dog when he created the Earth; God did not create dogs at the time of Creation because God always had a dog.
Our entire family are dog lovers & frankly, I think Saint Francis of Assissi was & is still absolutely correct that if humans can go to Heaven, so can dogs.
If we could figure a way for dogs to put cash in the church baskets, minister would no doubt want them in the first pew.
Just speaking up for our often mentioned & lovable Buster T -- he packs great love, unusual healing power, & something for you to live for -- just wish somebody allows you & Buster T see each other.
We understand you Bill, & also Buster T; & wish you only the best.
