Episode 126 – Breaching the Gap

First, a link to Storypeople, the source of the gift that precipitated this podcast.

And a not-very-good-but-you-get-the-idea picture of the gift itself:

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I don’t know whether it’s a function of age and experience or dementia, but lately it seems to me that in the realm of quality human-animal interactions, a lot of what’s going on reminds me of the old saying, “The hurrider I go, the behinder I get.”  Sometimes we ‘re in such a hurry to make changes in our animals as fast as possible, we don’t realize the result actually puts us farther behind.

When this is the case, daily doses of companionable silence can do wonders to improve the quality of interspecies communication.