Chasing tails/tales [Re: Detachment and the real world]

"But, I agree with your attitude. Do you have any new insights to share?"

I do have a story to share:

A good friend of mine used to have this dog, a Pomeranian called Taz.


Like his names sake he would come like a blur, throw himself at your feet
and then beat a hasty retreat, whilst making all that dog music that
Pomeranians are famous for.


He was a prodigious tail chaser as well. If he caught you watching him he'd
give you this look of distain and if to say "I could explain it to you, but
you'd never get it". If he caught you laughing at him, he'd once again do
the foot lunge.


I knew Taz for many years but we never became close friends. He let me
let him sniff my hand once or twice but that was as close as we got, except
tooth to foot.


I wonder if tail chasing is universal in mammals with tails?


Girl dogs and cats do it to so it can't all be a testosterone thing.


Breaking the boredom, trying once again to do the impossible, staying in
shape in confined quarters.


Is the front-end trying to catch up with the backside, or is the backside
trying to get away?


Seems since we lost our tails our tail chasing has just got somewhat more
subtle, not much but a little anyways.


We set our intuitive side to the task of chasing our instinctual side and
try to put it into words and voila, we are now chasing tales, chasing the
perfect story, the perfect explanation of the chase.


I wonder sometimes who's more evolved; myself who as Taz is a prodigious
tale-tail chaser or my wife who doesn't get what all the fuss is about, and
doesn't think it's particularly funny or interesting to watch anyways.


As with hunting, the fun, the adventure, is in the chase.


Perhaps that's why we periodically forget that we've caught up already,
perhaps it's because the pursued got away.


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All the best! To all those Friends and fiends of tale chasing!


Yours Larry


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