Yes, yes I do have a couple of them

Well, at least that's one of two over there to your left.

As you can see, the Duchess goes through things rather than jog a little (as in move off) to the side to go around stationary obstacles. Of course, to say this dog jogs for anything at all would be a stretch. Oh, she might pick up the pace a little if you offer her a treat from a distance which, yes, we still do in training mode.

For the most part, though, she takes her name all too seriously and thinks moving quickly beneath her.

The photo, by the way, is a WYSIWYG offering. It was one of those lovely late afternoons of Fall, though, when a person could remain in denial that lousy weather slowly approacheth.

And why is it, anyway, do you think that a pup is smart enough to just follow a straight line to carry on when people make things so difficult and over-think things. I've never heard one of the Labs mull over the merits of moving this way or that to get to the other side.

Maybe this post is proving a point then, in comparing the human and the canine.

And I could tell you what that thought of comparison is ... but then you'd be staring at a pumpkin and I'd have no place for musing about the ramblings of mankind - including this.