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Want To Go Out?
One Saturday, as Mom was finishing the dinner dishes, my father stepped up behind her. "Would you like to go out, girl?" he asked.
Not even turning around, my mother quickly replied, "Oh, yes, I'd love to!"
They had a wonderful evening, and it wasn't until the end of the evening that Dad finally confessed that his question had actually been directed to the family dog, laying near Mom's feet on the kitchen floor.
You have probably heard of Seeing Eye dogs but did you know that there are dogs especially trained to assist the hearing impaired? Hearing and signal dogs provide a valuable service by alerting their owners to sounds like door bells, phones, smoke alarms, and babies.
"In order to really enjoy a dog, one doesn't merely try to train him to be semihuman. The point of it is to open oneself to the possibility of becoming partly a dog."
- Edward Hoagland
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