{"id":18406,"date":"2021-08-20T06:36:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-20T13:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=18406"},"modified":"2021-08-20T06:36:00","modified_gmt":"2021-08-20T13:36:00","slug":"overnight-news-you-have-questions-for-a-universe-gone-mad-i-have-questions-for-dogs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/18406\/overnight-news-you-have-questions-for-a-universe-gone-mad-i-have-questions-for-dogs\/","title":{"rendered":"Overnight News: You have questions for a universe gone mad. I have questions for\u00a0dogs."},"content":{"rendered":"

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\u201cWhere\u2019s Waldo? What does he smell\u00a0like?\u201d<\/p><\/div>I have so many questions for dogs.<\/p>\n

That’s a funny observation, and I want to make it the first line of a book someday, but it really is no joke: In my personal ‘Freaky Friday’ fantasy I get to quiz dogs about everything.<\/p>\n

As noted, I think academics are useless when it comes to apprehending ontology, so my very first question might be: “How do you see?”<\/p>\n

Not the optics or the bio-mechanics, but simply this: “What means what to you in this chaotic tableaux?”<\/p>\n

We are Greeks \u2013 thoughtless ones \u2013 so we have been rigorously trained from birth to focus on differences: “Which bunny is brown?” “Color only the triangles.” “Where’s Waldo?”<\/p>\n

Why would your dog go about things that way?<\/p>\n

Here’s fun: You know you can easily hide things from your dog simply by covering them. A ball under a tee shirt is a comedy triumph to a toddler and a complete mystery to a dog. Try hiding things in plain sight: Put something the dog loves to see into a setting so chaotic the dog persistently overlooks it.<\/p>\n

Give a Bloodhound like Odysseus one of Waldo’s dirty socks and that skinny emo freak has no place to hide. You can get your dog to watch videos \u2013 if they’re about dogs and involve lots of motion and barking. But show a dog a static still life expecting anything but boredom? Good luck with that.<\/p>\n

In other news:<\/em><\/strong><\/p>\n

Housing Wire:<\/strong> Mortgage rates dip slightly to 2.86%.<\/a><\/p>\n

Redfin.com:<\/strong> July Marked 12 Straight Months of Double-Digit Price Increases.<\/a><\/p>\n

City Journal:<\/strong> No Home for Innovation: Why China will never have the world\u2019s preeminent economy.<\/a> Innovation is D or I, not C. You can’t be both new and perfect. Perfectionism is the enemy of all originality.<\/p>\n

Asia Times:<\/strong> Are Taliban planning to massacre Americans? The Taliban know their history well and they want to make the Americans pay for the last 20 years of warfare.<\/a><\/p>\n

The Federalist:<\/strong> Homeschooling Is Surging Across America. Homeschoolers Told Us Why.<\/a><\/p>\n

Dr. Ben Carson:<\/strong> Does The Definition Of \u2018Fascism\u2019 Apply To The Biden Administration?<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cWhere\u2019s Waldo? What does he smell\u00a0like?\u201dI have so many questions for dogs. That’s a funny observation, and I want to make it the first line of a book someday, but it really is no joke: In my personal ‘Freaky Friday’ fantasy I get to quiz dogs about everything. 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