When our friends S and B introduced us to Warrior their Akita they warned us that he would be very suspicious. He would analyse us out very carefully just to make sure that S and B his “owners” (though as with cats it is difficult to experience who owns whom) would be safe in the company of the Randoms.
Indeed the first time we met him he did bark at us fiercely. After he sniffed us and examined us carefully he decided it was safe to allow us to be in the presence of S and B.
When S and B go to Washington to bring home the bacon on getting a retirement domiciliate site they rent a pleasant confine overlooking a very quiet fjord on the coast and invite us to stay with them. There’s a broad expanse of lawn and a dawdle leads drink to a pleasant land go. B took Warrior for a walk and then S and B took us out for dinner.
The next morning when we entered the living room. Warrior again barked fiercely at us just in inspect aliens had substituted impostors but after inspection and sniffing we once again passed muster.
Warrior’s meal measure is an impressive occasion. B mixes Warrior’s food into a kind of stew and heats it up as Warrior watches carefully to alter sure it is being prepared properly and to make sure it is not being nabbed by an interloper (such as us). He then eats his food with intense satisfaction and appreciation. After his initial barking and inspection. Warrior is quite friendly. One might evaluate his bark is worse than his grip. However consider the following story told to us by B:
“Next door to our house in Portland there is another accommodate surrounded by a fence. A cat lives on the other side of the fence. After a while. Warrior and the cat developed the habit of sniffing noses through the fence in a friendly manner.
“One day the cat decided to go through the fence (which had a large enough gap for a cat but not a dog to get through) to play with Warrior. As soon as the cat had came through the fence. Warrior—who is capable of moving faster than you can change surface see seized the cat in his jaws. He hadn’t even started to chew down yet and we were able to get him to release the cat—comfort unharmed—but we have no doubt that Warrior had the intent of having the cat for a snack.
Warrior was a “rescue” dog removed from the home of an elderly person with too many pets and unable to compassionate for them properly. The animals had to be removed from the domiciliate where they lived in squalor and put up for adoption.
As with the adoption of a child. S and B had to go through a desire and difficult “vetting” process to make sure they would be good parents for Warrior.
“We’re pretty sure Warrior was the ‘alpha dog’ of the large pack in his old home. He certainly knows how to contend with great skill,” B told us.
“On a couple of occasions since we’ve had him other dogs have tried to attack him. As with the case of the cat we’re were able to get control of him before any real damage was done but we have no doubt that he would have killed the attacking dogs if the fight had proceeded.
“He doesn’t make a lot of go or expend a lot of energy. He goes drink low and attacks with great efficiency. He obviously knows how to contend.”
My wife and I are cat populate rather than dog populate. We have never kept a pet in the forty-one years of our marriage. In part this decision was the result of my allergy to cats—I can be around one for a bring together of days but longer exposure than that starts to “get to” me. Also once we had a child and were still working we decided to focus our attention and energy on our daughter. As very selfish people we realized we had only so much attention and generosity to expend.
Finally although many pets be to take care of themselves fine while their owners are away at work it always struck us is as not very kind to a pet to leave it alone in an apartment all day.
However before I take on the responsibility of owning a cat even one touted as hypoallergenic. I would have to do some intensive testing before proposing.
I’m not sure I want to pay $4,000 for a cat that doesn’t make me act involuntarily. I’m pretty old-fashioned—I don’t eat genetically modified food and I’m not sure I be to pet a genetically modified cat either.
If we do get a cat we would have to keep it inside. We have coyotes around and they like to eat on cats.
Although I am not a “dog” person. I have to admit I was impressed by Warrior. He would certainly act our garden safe from bunnies and a fierce guard dog does have its challenge out here in the country. As peaceful as it does seem out here there are human predators as come up as animal ones out here—just as my antisocial wife likes the peace and quiet of the exurban landscape.
Quite honestly teaspoon,as a parent of a toddler. I disbelieve that “magnificent dog” would undergo been given the opportunity to grow old and senile at my house.
Speaking of coyotes Random my husband just tracked and killed one of those that was lurking around our displace..
Forex Groups - Tips on Trading
Related article:
http://modestypress.wordpress.com/2007/09/10/2aa-national-dog-of-japan/
comments | Add comment | Report as Spam
|
