As I was sitting composing emails, Himself appeared over my shoulder. I tried to ignore him.
Himself just stood there, a brooding presence, disturbing my concentration without even trying too hard. I couldn’t stand it any longer, so I looked up questioningly at him.
It was Himself’s usual questions – about mealtimes. The conversation went as follows:
When were we going to eat? (Dinner time)
What time would that be? (When I’ve cooked it)
When would that be? (Once I’d finished these emails)
and so on…
Eventually we settled on a mutually agreed time and off he went, leaving me to struggle to get my creative juices flowing again as always after such interruptions.
Himself thought I was just not being helpful with these answers, but they were the truth. I don’t always know how long it’s going to take me to finish whatever task I’m in the middle of, so I couldn’t give Himself the exact answer he wanted.
Part of the reason was that his questions were slightly obscure. If Himself had told me why he wanted to know the exact time at the start of our conversation, he could have had a simpler answer. (It turned out he wanted to take his new toy out for a spin and he wanted to know when he should come back.)
The more detailed the question the better the quality of the answer. I asked you last week to please ask me any questions you have about dog training or behaviour so that I can make sure these blogs are useful for you.
If you haven’t already, please contact us and tell me what questions you’d like answers to.
I’ll read every message and I’ll provide the answers over the coming weeks in my emails.
Just ask!
Keep training
Carol
PS There are no silly questions. If it bothers or interests you, then ask about it. But I’m not promising there won’t be some silly answers!