Frigg and her hounds, search for bones.
Aloha nui loa,
Bygones and dogbones have much in common it seems. They are both a thing of the past; gone, gone- gone beyond--hopefully, ultimately transcended. What is it with dogs and their bones? I have just taken it for granted, all these years, that dogs know what they are doing when they trot out back and dig a hole. Recently, I began to wonder. Many bones seem to be lost treasures out there, laying wait in the deep dark earth....do dogs have an internal mapping system, like our GPS? Or, is it just that much more fun, having to re-find it? Mysterious. More than likely, it is indeed the snauze, that grand sniffer, that would be the key to tracking it back, yet, I see alot of sniffing around the yard and no dirty bones. Hmmmm....
In some circles now, it is politically incorrect to give dogs bones. Something in human history that has been as habitual and time honored as giving a dog a bone, is now sadly frowned upon. It is bygone. The era is over. "Let bygones be bygones", as they say. We now has plastic and rubber dog bones, that are good for dogs. Hmmmmm....
Now that the horrifying news of bygone dog bones has spread across the land and been grokked by New Age dogs, I notice that if offered a "real" bone or if they have found one by chance at a park or beach, they just gobble them up --on the spot!
Yes, it's true! I have witnessed it myself; small, large and medium sized dogs are not wasting any time digging that sacred hole anymore, they just swallow them whole instead. It is amazing how fast those bad for dogs bones disappear. I swear, one time I just slightly turned my head away on my Grandpuppy, Buddy (a very cute, small red longhaired Dachsie), whom I had very innocently given a sturdy "real" bone to chew on--glump...gone! SCARY!!!! It was less than a quarter second! Hmmmmm....
Apparently, the truth is that animal bones can splinter and puncture a dogs insides. Yucky. This is dangerous and can injure the doggie or even kill it. Soooo......maybe this is why we have an overpopulation of dogs! Rubber and hard plastics don't take dogs down, they just taste bad! Come to think of it, maybe dogs never did really eat bones before this recent scare, they just stashed them out back. Now that it's taboo, they are freakin' out and overreacting to the threat. Dogs without bones....is like water for chocolate, or something.
Please don't think me crass, I love dogs and would never want them to be hurt, it's just that like all things human, we change our minds about what is "good" and "bad" alot. Remember when coffee, chocolate and wine were "bad for us"? Now, there's a Starbucks on every corner (coffee is good for liver function), so many chocolate bars, it gets confusing just to pick one (cocoa raises endorphin levels) and wino's are off the streets and moved into the gated communities (red wine lowers cholesterol). Hmmmmm....I'm just sticking to an apple a day for me and a "gum and teeth smart, healthy, vege, bacon scented nylabone " for my pooches--no holes in the garden no more, it's a bygone day when dogs dn' get no bones no more! They still have secrets though!
Hey, are cow hooves still kosher?
Oh- well.
Be well,
Jane
The Death of "Dog Bone Keeper".
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