Boza is blind as many of the readers of WtR know. But I do not talk about too much how he has adjusted to blindness…
It is amazing to watch him…
Dogs have fantastic hearing and smell in the first place, but the levels that Boza has obtained is (again) amazing. He can hear a car over a kilometer away and that is from inside the village home. I am lucky to hear it at all inside and 100 meters outside. When downwind of something as a deer, quail and whatever, he can smell them from kilometers away. When the wind changes direction and the smell of the pig farm down south is coming our way, he knows hours before I even can smell it…
He never had bloodhound abilities before the blindness, but he does now…. He loves to flush out quail, that has become one of his favorite things to do. Svetochka kinda got him going on the quail thingy and now it is very important to him to notice any quail with in kilometers of our place…
He also can transverse the ground, almost as if he can see. I have noticed that the only thing I have to watch for is when he is on a scent of some animal and follows that scent off a cliff or into the river and or something akin to that… His nose leads him everywhere and I watch as he goes around things as if he can see it. He is just following the scent of another animal, such as a fox. It is interesting to watch him follow a cat scent, cats jump upon things and that confuses Boza sometimes. I have to stop him from running into a boulder or tree trunk lets say…
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Okay, something new and amazing also…
River Otter and we have one down below at the natural pond. The same pond that we have coots, ducks and other nice things of nature…
Now we have an Otter and I will get pictures of him. Or try at least…. I have been noticing tracks on the ice of the pond and I had never seen these tracks before. Yesterday, out across the pond, ran an Otter and he was black and huge…
I tried to get a picture, but he was camera shy and ran away after he saw me trying… 😉
I may have to fire up the big camera with 60x zoom. He is really cool…
My suggestion to Western (white especially) males; Don’t look, don’t touch, don’t think about, don’t smile at, don’t frown at, don’t walk in front of, don’t walk behind, don’t walk next to, don’t tie your shoes in public, don’t do a damn thing around any woman. Definitely do not be a male…. If you see a woman, run, I mean run fast, for soon you will be called out as a sexist and harasser…
Okay seems farfetched? Na, just looks like an all male monastery is the safest place right now….and I am not sure that is too safe at times…
Not from what I am seeing and unless we get things under control, this new agenda will destroy relationships between men and women!
That is the agenda? Maybe…
WtR