I was feeding the dogs at Widget’s House yesterday evening when I looked across the room and deaf Tyler doing his pathetic routine. He is one of the original ‘drama queens’ at the ranch … a dog who can look tragic in an instant, simply to get you to envelop him in your arms out of sympathy. (Clever, eh?) He also can appear thoroughly conflicted — so he’ll have his tail tucked between his legs and a haunted look on his face, like he’s scared to death of you. But when you drop to your knees and open your arms wide, he’ll run right to you … with his tail still tightly tucked.
A minute later he’s running around, tail up, being goofy. Then he’s back to interminable sadness, as if the weight of the world is on his Pointer shoulders. I tell him he really does not need to worry about the Dow plunging 237 points, Pakistan unraveling or global warming. But fret he does … until absolute joy overtakes him. We never quite know what he’s thinking. As Alayne likes to say, "Tyler lives in Tyler’s own little world."
And what you see in the photo is what he does at dinnertime on occasion … sitting hunched over in the middle of the room, looking and acting pathetic, hoping to get fed before anyone else does. No, it doesn’t work, but it doesn’t keep him from trying!
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