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436. Forget Everything You Know About Your Dog

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Dogs and Humans - Is That a Good Idea?

Small dogs are perfectly good at playing with giant dogs and vice versa. The large dogs moderate ther behaviour to beasts more suited to the small dog. Small dogs don't think of themselves as lesser than big dogs, correct? Right? But i do think that we're getting a better deal in some ways. Our need to take kind of total control, in many cases, over the dogs experiences. So i feel like there are e many fewer controls that they have on our experience. It's a clever strategy to turn to us. We humans are brilliant enough to extract hopelessly tangled leashes from around trees. We can conjure up an endless bounty of food stuffs and things to chew....

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