conclusion-ing. was a word i often used in child rearing. .. ( i think . it's .. my word)---there is a problem with conclusioning.. for example if. you want to put your coffee cup on a table. --- you hold the handle... And reach forward and when the cup is over the table you release the handle it sets the cop on the table ----doesn't sound too complicated yet .. however if you start to reach for the table and anticipate the fact that your cup should be on the table and you release the handle too quickly the cup then falls to the ground... still not too scientific.. the problem is concentrating on a successful conclusion often obliterates some of the details that make the conclusion successful...
Now I must not criticize anything anyone is doing at service dog project... and believe me that's not my intention but I do think that these beautiful puppies that you now have need to have someone observe them in great detail and relate that to the daily doggies I have been writing for the last week or so on the topic of expanding the energies of teenage boys by building stone walls. I was really hoping that the concept would wash over. into the rearing of young teenage puppies which is what you now have..... full of energy and ready to be mentally challenged along with physically challenged---often done by running up and down puppy hill ----just a suggestion that is-- but also running through the tube---- sitting in the car--- getting in the doghouse. an attendant to run up and down the hill with them--- personal attention—teaching in-out doors -etc
in my evening sit down with Bud -- he noticed ----as I have noticed----. that these puppies this week sound different... they are not playing the usual little puppy bitey face that puppys do when they're young.. these are beginning to be serious dogs and they sound different.
I think the problem is. Conclusioning—concentration on what they will be and missing out on what they now are. Zooming around with open mouth does not translate well to 160 pound year old dogs—it is a lot of work-- short cuts do not always produce desired results.
I see a lot of conclusioning in the horse world.----- When parents buy a beautifully western trained ( and exercised) horse for their child--- put it in a stall in new England and feed it wonderfully rich foods giving it more energy---while having no wide open spaces to expend that energy....-- this is why Wallace has such a full time job---- it can get to the point of Wallace is the only one who can ride these well fed creatures...
I have another horse world comment. “nothing wrong with that horse that could not be cured by 20 miles at a fast trot”
