Oddly - I don’t see anomalies in letting my dogs
be dogs - actually I’m not really ‘letting’ them; it
is a play on words meaning I don’t interfere lest
so I be judged. So they chase interesting things
displaying signs only they discern evident. One
was a goanna (monitor lizard) who dashed the
length of the dam & scuttled up a gumtree with
great alacrity & a vocal JRT in hot pursuit
excited yelps expressing ‘young’ dog fervour, in
ages - he’s way past his youth but there was no
denying this enthusiasm was real; now we’ve to
deal with reality, it wouldn’t reveal itself or come
back down to play - no way, so there all those
climb the tree, I’m not going to flush it out, we’ll
leave it be’ and he pragmatically accepted with
a cursory glance over his shoulder - we walked
away still exhilarated by the thrill of the chase -
yeah, he’ll boast, biggest I’ve ever braced
© 10 December 2013, I. D. Carswell
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