Word: dogged
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Dates: during 1960-1969
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...which is fine; but to be thusly true to the dog requires more of us college people than we can give no matter how settled our emotional condition...
...roomie took off for vacation on his father's private airplane for Florida. The dog, it goes without saying, couldn't be expected to discontinue its existence for ten days. So, through the series of accidents we've come to know as Fate, the dog fell into my hands...
...English teacher's student, do hate dogs. But I hate them because I know. I am more at one with their (the dogs') existence than most dog buyers I've run into. If they truly knew what they were doing, they would never have gotten the dog for many reasons similar to those because of which they presumably passed up actual children...
After a week's coordinate living with the dog, I've learned how important it is to the dog to be free to expand its own awareness, to extend the boundaries of its own experience as far as it wants to. We keep it inside all the time except when it is "taken for a walk." We feed it when we remember to or when we get back home. We tell it to shut up and stop running around whenever it's around...
...dog tears the newspaper to shreads all over the floor. He gobbles my socks. It drives me nuts. It reminds me how much he wants to go out and run around in the street. He'd be killed if he did. Dogs should be allowed to grow up on big farms, and run around over the fields, and know all kinds of dog things about the land that we could never know...