{"id":989,"date":"2010-11-17T08:37:07","date_gmt":"2010-11-17T15:37:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/?p=989"},"modified":"2010-11-17T08:43:23","modified_gmt":"2010-11-17T15:43:23","slug":"a-warning-to-loudmouths-everywhere-cathys-into-pain-compliance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/989\/a-warning-to-loudmouths-everywhere-cathys-into-pain-compliance\/","title":{"rendered":"A warning to loudmouths everywhere: Cathy’s into pain compliance . . ."},"content":{"rendered":"

[Kicking this back to the top. Cathleen is trying to get the very willful Ophelia to walk to her heel, and that put me in mind of this song, which I wrote almost four years ago. –GSS]<\/em><\/p>\n

 
So: This is a long way in…<\/p>\n

First, Ophelia, our newly-adopted Redbone Coonhound, gets all over the nerves of Desdemona, our English Coonhound. A deafening racket ensues. Fortuitously, Odysseus the TV Spokemodel Bloodhound, who is in fact the loudest dog on Earth, doesn’t add much to the cacophony.<\/p>\n

But: We were running out of seconds of silence in which to place hurried phone calls. This is not the ideal way to run a real estate business.<\/p>\n

I try not to be one of those guys who pretends to have three testicles, but, nevertheless, it usually falls to me to be the bad guy. When there’s constabulary work to be done, the constable’s lot is a terrible one.<\/p>\n

So this Monday just past, I decided more or less unilaterally that Desdemona was going to get a shock collar to control her barking. Cathy was all in favor of painless solutions, but we have tried all of these, at considerable expense. I knew that I was going to have to take the blame for inflicting pain on poor Desdemona, but we were all but entirely unable to communicate in our own home.<\/p>\n

So: We got the collar. Desdemona moderated her behavior almost immediately. And, biggest surprise of all, my dear sweet tender-hearted Cathleen has become the world’s most vocal champion of pain compliance for dog training. She’s so happy with the results Desdemona is exhibiting that, yesterday, she bought a remote-control training collar for Ophelia.<\/p>\n

All this is hugely funny to me, and it all seems to fit so well with with the rest of our insane lives, so I wrote a song about it — up-tempo and loud. And with all that as introduction, here are the lyrics:<\/p>\n

Cathy’s into pain compliance<\/b><\/p>\n

Don’t bark, don’t bite
\nDon’t growl at night
\nDon’t post anonymous tripe
\nDon’t sniff, don’t snivel
\nAnd spare us your drivel
\nYou’re hardly the last word in gripes
\n     Attorneys yearn to cluck defiance
\n     But Cathy’s into pain compliance<\/p>\n

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[Kicking this back to the top. Cathleen is trying to get the very willful Ophelia to walk to her heel, and that put me in mind of this song, which I wrote almost four years ago. –GSS]  So: This is a long way in… First, Ophelia, our newly-adopted Redbone Coonhound, gets all over the nerves […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_crdt_document":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,13,6,5],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-989","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"hentry","6":"category-blogging","7":"category-casual-friday","8":"category-marketing","9":"category-real-estate","11":"no-featured-image"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":881,"url":"https:\/\/www.bloodhoundrealty.com\/BloodhoundBlog\/881\/it-its-wednesday-there-must-be-another-dog-in-our-house\/","url_meta":{"origin":989,"position":0},"title":"If it’s Wednesday, there must be another dog in our house . . .","author":"Greg Swann","date":"January 10, 2007","format":false,"excerpt":"This is our son Cameron with a two-year-old Bloodhound bitch we adopted today. 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