Strange Brew by John Deering for April 23, 2022

One of the things I learned early in working for a vet is that dogs don’t appreciate lexical fine points. Most of them don’t seem to know what even basic “arf” means: “No, no! I said ‘Arf!’ It’s… No, your other arf!”

Cats, meanwhile, know what “meow” means,* but they’re fussy about pronunciation: “Seriously? Where did you learn to speak Cat? TikTok?”

*Also “arf,” apparently, though cats mostly sneer at the dogs’ accents. “Where’s Professor Higgins when you need him?”

My dogs had different barks for “warning”, “where are you?”, “pay attention”…..

Should have had a bunch of little fire hydrants and shrubs. :-)

Should be scratch n sniff notes.

Huskies have a wide range of sounds. Our first husky could clearly say “out”. He also understood the human word “out”. But I could never get him to connect the two and say “out” when that was what he wanted.

Good doggie! Not a single Grrr.

He’s waiting for a treat….

I like the sticky note with ‘while you were loose’ on it!

I don’t think this is what they mean by “paper training.”

Arf in Korean…meong, meong!!

Posted notes are all yellow. Wonder if they started out that way.

translated, the notes all say “hey” (with apologies to gary larson)…