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In a message dated 5/25/2003 12:35:33 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
AimeeL73@... writes:


> << Cameron was *such* an easy child. I, too, thought that *I* was the
> perfect
> parent. Everyone else was just doing it WRONG!
>
> Then I had Duncan. <g>
>
> ~Kelly
> >>
> Oh, you were the victim of the Creators' master plan to birth as many
> children as possible to unschooling parents!
>
> I always joke around that the birthing Goddess gave me Alex *first*, a
> happy,
> content, gorgeous child, to "trick" me into having more children.

well, actually...no. There are eight years between my boys. Duncan is our
surprise! <g>

~Kelly


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jmcseals SEALS

<<They [animals] are not sentient.>>>

Do you really believe that? I *know* my animals are quite capable of
emotional repsonses. I venture a guess that emotions and physical, primal
desires are the driving forces, rather than intellectual ponderings of
what's to come. It is their biology to procreate. They have no way of
knowing their 'population statistics'. So I do agree wih you that it is our
responsibility to make reproductive decisions for them. Perhaps there are
others who will disagree?

Jennifer

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In a message dated 5/26/2003 7:21:03 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
bunsofaluminum60@... writes:


> "Dogs see color! I know they do!" (Mind you, this is a man
> who "knows" that flies' eggs are the little brown specks they leave
> on ceilings...and he's the genius of the family) Anyway, his "proof"
> was that he had a dog; he could roll a blue ball and a red ball
> across the room and tell the dog "Get the red ball" and it would get
> the red one every time.
>
> I said "the red ball most likely SMELLED differently than the blue
> ball, and it knew what SMELL you meant, when you said red."
>

I'm only 328 e-mails behind---sick 'puter. So I'm sorry to bring this up so
late.

There's an obedience dog demo team here. Each dog and handler team wears a
different color shirt & bandana. At the end of the demo, several different
colored dumbells are placed in the center of the group. Each dog is sent into the
middle to pick out "his" color dumbell. It's a Utility level exercise on scent
discrimination---quite easy for the dogs, but everyone believes the dog is
picking out his "color".

"Magic" at work! <G>

~Kelly


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