“Ten months ago, when Regis and his wife, Melanie, brought the dog home, Regis took Barney’s lively curiosity as a sign of intelligence. It was an understandable error—Regis had never owned a dog before. His mother refused to even consider having a defecating animal in the house. Since then, however, Regis, a teacher of American literature at the community college, has done his reading. It’s possible that as one-year-old Labs go, Barney is blessed with intelligence. But, all the books caution, y...oung dogs of Barney’s size generally consist of two key elements: the body of an athlete and the brain of a two-year-old child. The athleticism tends to wane over time, as it does in humans. That two-year-old brain never really matures. Barney yanks and pulls, bounds forward and stops suddenly, jerking Regis to an arm-wrenching halt, at more or less the same places every single day. These are usually places where other dogs have peed or defecated, and nothing can move Barney from those spots until he’s stuck his nose deep into the once-wet or, at the very least, moist ground and inhaled deeply a few times.MoreLessRead More Read Less
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