Hey! Wendy! I think you have been reading my mail!!
Actually my very best most favourite hobby is misanthropy.
A tale of a dog..............
A few years ago I was photographing a Kelp Gull down the road from where I
was then living in SE Queensland.
Kelp Gulls are rather rare visitors to that part of the world.
During the process a young couple came along pushing a pram with a very
young baby in it and leading an Alsatian dog.
They came close to me and asked me what I was doing.
I immediately had the thought that a question like that did not auger well
for the baby's mental development.
I explained I was taking photographs. They seemed to understand and stayed
still and quiet while keeping the dog under control until I had finished.
After a few more minutes I finished my photography, switched of the camera
and gathered up my gear.
I thanked the couple, we exchanged smiles and I began to walk away.
The couple then released the dog which ran straight at the bird I had been
photographing. The couple made no sound or physical attempt to stop the dog
but simply looked on in rapture as their pet did "what dogs do naturally".
I suddenly felt very tired and developed an uncontrollable desire to be
somewhere else.
What do you say to people like that.
They obviously had the combined brain power of a desiccated ant and would
not have been able to comprehend any possibility of having done anything
wrong.
I suppose there are some truly bad dogs but they are few and far between.
Usually the problem has been created by a human through choosing the wrong
type of dog and/or an inability or unwillingness to train and care for the
dog properly.
Cheers
Bob Inglis
Sandstone Point
Qld
Other pet hates:
- men;
- women;
- children;
- other motorists;
- other supermarket shoppers;
- faulty supermarket trolleys;
- checkout creatures;
- Australian cricketers;
- commercial TV current affairs shows;
- twitchers;
- non-twitchers;
- Nikon camera lovers;
- myself (no, not myself);
- probably everything else.
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