Monty by Jim Meddick for September 25, 2024

Now he’s got to take a bath.

Gross! Our golden did the roll in what I assumed was something that had lived at one time, and I could barely stand the drive home (windows wide open!).

“Don’t Spook The Horse” by Neil Young.

“… If you want to pet that old hound dog … Make sure he ain’t rolled in sh……”

One warm summer morning, I was walking on the beach on Lake Michigan, and one of my dogs started rolling around in the remains of a large, rotting fish. She was reeking with the putrid stench of that nastiest of the nasties. I had to throw her collar away. It took several baths to get her back to normal.

My dad’s sister once had a little white poodle. I was at the farm one day and my Aunt arrived with her poodle that had just been groomed. He was clean and fluffy with a red ribbon bow on his head. He jumped out of the car and made a beeline for the pasture where he found the biggest, wettest, greenest cow plop and literately dove into it. He then pushed his face through it to make sure he had gotten enough under his chin. Once he was satisfied that all of the grooming had been nullified he came prancing back to the yard and wanted to be petted. Dogs can’t talk but they know how to communicate.

I’m not waiting for Monty to mark his territory. :)

The trouble is dogs don’t really distinguish between good smells and bad smells. It’s basically strong smells and weak smells. You would not want to smell half of the things a dog normally smells.

If he really wants to roll in something that stinks he should roll in any of the strips that feature Sedgwick Nuttingham III

For a brilliant look into animal senses — how they differ from ours, including some that we don’t even have, like the magnetic and electrical ones — read Ed Yong’s An Immense World. Something astounding on every page. Best book I’ve read this century!

Oh no!