Online shopping (or attempted shoppping) plus some lower level workshopping.

Fog this morning, and another difficult walk with Pax. Hardly out of the driveway he heard distant gunfire and wanted to go back. I decided we would walk anyway, which was probably a bad idea. I thought it might be good to try to tough it out, with occasional stops for calm encouragement, but no. It seemed that as soon as we got our minds off gunshots and onto smelling good stuff, another distant volley would knock us back to terror. So, it is looking like weekend walks during November and December are going to have to be eliminated. Training Pax to ignore gunfire is right up there wih training him to fly. Is it genetics or past traumatic experience? I think both. And while Pax will never learn to love shooting, I have learned that forcing the issue during the endless hunting season here in Wisconsin is not a good idea.

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I would also like to suggest that if you like to hunt you should use your teeth, a knife, a spear, or a draw bow. Shooting is unsportsmanlike, and really annoys some dogs.