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Here’s me and Harley looking at the sky.<\/p>\n
Harley is staying with us and he is like a big animated teddy bear.<\/p>\n
He also sometimes winds Rocco up which saves me a job.<\/p>\n
Today I’ve been trying to explain to him the difference between Sky Chasing and Sky Groaning,<\/p>\n
but I don’t think he fully grasped the intricate nuances of the subjects.<\/p>\n
I’ve got them down to a fine art.<\/p>\n
Most dogs never look at the sky, and only occasionally remember that is there<\/p>\n
when they are trying to see in which direction a stick or ball went.<\/p>\n
I watch it a lot.<\/p>\n
I often go out with my head up as far as I can reach and study what the sky is doing.<\/p>\n
Sometimes there are clouds, and sometimes they race overhead so fast I feel that I have to try and control them.<\/p>\n
The best way of doing this I’ve found is for me to run up and down the path as quickly as I can so that the clouds slow down.<\/p>\n
This is Sky Chasing.<\/p>\n
Harley grasped the running part but just kept running after me, and not watching the clouds.<\/p>\n
When I told him to watch the clouds, he kept running into me instead of looking where he was going.<\/p>\n
He’s a bit bigger and heavier than I am, so after being trampled on a few times I swiftly moved the conversation on to the subject of Sky Groaning.<\/p>\n
Sky Groaning is something I’m still trying to understand myself, and I’d hoped Harley might have been able to share some insights, but unfortunately it was all beyond him.<\/p>\n
The way I see it is this:<\/p>\n
Sometimes it rains.<\/p>\n
Rain is A Very Strange Thing.<\/p>\n
I bark at the rain because it can ruin a pleasant snooze in the sun.<\/p>\n
Sometimes the rain comes from the clouds.<\/p>\n
Sometimes the rain comes from the washing that Helen hangs up.<\/p>\n
I run up and down under the washing line and notice that our blankets seem to rain a lot.<\/p>\n
Which is odd, because they are always dry when they come back into our beds afterwards.<\/p>\n
The swaying blankets drive me mad, just like the clouds, so I used to bark at them.<\/p>\n
But now I Groan at them instead.<\/p>\n
Helen calls it my Sky Groaning, but she doesn’t realise I learnt it from her in the first place.<\/p>\n
One afternoon when I’d spent a long while trying to control the weather,<\/p>\n
Helen returned from Being Out and came and joined me in looking at the sky.<\/p>\n
She saw the rain coming from the clouds and the rain coming from the washing and she gave a very big groan.<\/p>\n
The next day it was really sunny all day.<\/p>\n
I was very inspired by this and now often practice Sky Groaning several times a week.<\/p>\n
Harley said I think too much about the sky and should play more instead.<\/p>\n
I said he plays too much and should think more about the sky instead.<\/p>\n
Rocco was smirking at both of us again, I don’t know why.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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