On Conviction to your Beliefs

[DenaliDemocrat]

From a hunting website, fron an Anti-Bush outdoorsmen.


I had a little springer spaniel once upon a time. He had a doggie door to go outside in the back. For some reason, the dog was convinced that the front door had a doggie door on it as well...........alas, it did not.

At least twice a week, the little liver and white dog would hear the doorbell and go running full bore at the door, expecting to be let ouside through a door that did not exist and never had. Invariably, he would wind up on the floor on his back, at times his eyes rolling up into the back of his head. Considerbale training attempts were made by my mother (a horse woman and eventually a trainer from the age of 2) however, the little dog held true to his convictions. His beliefs were solid, they were not negotiable. Despite my mother's best efforts, the little dog insisted on believing that the front door had a doggie door as well as the back door. He knew what he believed, and he was not going to alter his course for anyone or anything.

History will judge this little dog and his actions. Some of us (mostly family members) think the dog just lacked enough gray matter between his ears to make him capable of distinguishing right from wrong. However, the little dog believed that the family was too shortsighted, and that History will judge his actions, and only twenty or thirty years later will we be able to judge the actions of this little dog, and truly see his foresight in slamming his littly doggy-head into a 2-inch solid oak door.

Now I have german hunting dogs imported and tested in the JGHV. They disappoint me. They lack conviction. Why just this week, my female who usually likes to go outside during the day refused to stay outside. It was -19 below zero at my house with a windchill of about -35. I could not believe her. What happend to her belief system? her convictions?

Oh how I long for the days of that little liver spaniel-head thumping solidly against a hard wood door. I lost a lot of respect for my female dog that day. Sometimes she likes to go outside, and then she changes her mind and decides she does not want to go ....what a flip flopper.