I love the reports that the Bay Area premium pet pampering company "Hot Diggity Dog" send home to their clients. Imagine what the world would be like if kids at all the Day Care Centers of the world received the same quality feedback on their personalities and personal development as some dogs do. A note which I discovered today while cleaning, from Hot Diggity's Carlo :
"Baci [a Bernese mountain dog, ed. note] helped convince someone today to get a Bernese - she was walking a Dachsund around, to 'get him used to bigger dogs', and they came up to Baci, who was lying down and enjoying the shade - the little Dachsund ran up, introduced himself, bounced around, sniffing and nosing, and pestering, while Baci placidly (and I think with some amount of amusement) tolerated his antics. The Dachsund owner told me later that she was considering either a Newfoundland or a Bernese, but Baci was 'so sweet.'" The note also indicated that Baci had both "poopooed and peepeed" [preprinted alternatives,ed. note] between 12 noon and 3 p.m. that day.
Thought of Baci when I happened by Karlaplan in Stockholm at around 8 p.m. last night, where several dogs were lined up outside the ICA grocery store, some of which were particularly conspicuous in their battery driven collars - like neon signs on the blink. Like a mistake in a text, after publication? No, this wasn't time for a lesson in English grammar, or for a dog reflector, but "matte timmen", when lots of hungry Swedish dogowners are out on their evening prowl, simply killing two birds with one stone.
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