Beg to differ, not defer. "Gimlet in the Pink," digital collage. (2008) Gimlet Rose Murphzha innerruuph ahmoomantt? Ack. That's better. We had something in our mouths. As we sometimes do, we were chewing mercilessly on rawhides. May we interrupt a moment and talk about mouths? Ours have teeth. Plenty of them. About 42 pointed pearly whites for the average dog. The average human usually has a set of 32, and they're fairly blunt. You're sharp enough to see that we outnumber you. Let's leave it at that. The question has been raised: how do you pry open a dog's jaws? The answer is simple: if you want to live long enough to be considered long in the tooth, you let the dog's jaws do the talking.
There is nothing quite as hair-raising to a dog, or as jaw-dropping, as a good human scream. Let it out. Bellow. Yowl. Bay at the moon. The higher the pitch of the scream, the quicker your remedy. No dog can tolerate a human pack member in distress. At the very least, we're annoyed at the tiptoeing upon our audial territory.
Let's not delve into the subject of toes and paws, though. Not now.
Back to the bones and the jaws and the mouth: a dog considers the mouth to be sacred. We smile, we bark, we bare our fangs in great shows of theater ... you do not want to enter that realm.
Surprise us. Startle us. Perhaps you can persuade us ... but do not pry.
A yelp helps, and that's the better bite.
Testing 1-2-3 testing.
Posted by: Tribby | March 26, 2008 at 07:39 PM
You made it.
Now, to fight our foes.
Posted by: Winston Churchill | March 26, 2008 at 07:56 PM
Wish that I knew this trick long ago, when I had to extract a chicken bone from the mouth of my rottweiller, who had lived with me for 2 whole days, at that point.
I got the bone, but I got to experience what having my finger clamped in a toothy vise would feel like.
Let us in on the paws and claws...pretty please?
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