Lily and Maddison

This came to my attention recently - a dog with a seeing eye dog.

http://twentytwowords.com/2011/10/24/a-dogs-seeing-eye-dog/

I suspect that one of these is a weredog.

Dog Words

I offer this list of dog-oriented words, over which many of these I have recently been in several discussions and debates.

cynolatry
  n. Dog-worship. Treating dogs like people or kids and having them groomed once a week does not count. That is obsession, not worship.

cynophobia   n. A morbid fear of dogs; an irrational fear or hatred of dogs or other canines.

cynophilist   n. A lover of dogs. If you talk to dogs, sleep with dogs and plan their meals along with your, you might be a candidate.

cynography   n. A history of the dog; a treatise on the dog.

cynoginist   n. A person who hates dogs. Usually also hates everyone and everything else.

cynanthropy   n. A kind of madness in which the afflicted person imagines himself to be a dog, and imitates its voice and actions. Some say this is the clinical diagnosis of weredogs. Many disagree, that there is no madness involved in being werefolk. Not to be confused with lycanthropy.

lyssophobia   n. A nervous state or extreme fear of dogs produced by morbid dread of rabies. The result is, and is nearly indistinguishable to, cynophobia.

Training Site

I am at a remote training site, not too far from KC, in east-centeral Missouri.

We have weredogs and werewolves here, training together in small unit tactics, small arms, and especially how to fight with claw, tooth and blade. I am amazed how many werefolk, dogs in particular, but even wolves, have no solid fighting skills. I was not aware it had got this bad. Used to be that all werefolk knew how to fight.

Small unit tactics are much the same as what humans use - wedges and Vs and columns and columns of 2s and Ranger files and online approach to a target or contact. We also do triangles of wedges, which is 3 wedges in a V, and a variation on the wedge and V that takes into account our greater sense of smell and greeter speed over short distance.

Can't use bullet launchers in dog or wolf forms, for obviously reasons, and it is very hard to effectively operation most pistols and rifles in wereform. And in human form, of course, tooth and claw are not options. One has to think ahead.

There are all the other issues of bringing large numbers of male and female trainees together. I find couples going at it all the time. I don't care as long as it does not interfere with training. We werefolk, like all canids, do not have the same problems with sex as do people.

I will fill in what and where I have been these past months. Odd, strange trip.

DoggelGanger

This was passed to me a few weeks ago.

http://www.doggelganger.co.nz/


Catching up on comms.

Working dog Competition

This will be in North Carolina next April. Go to the link for details.

http://www.k2si.com/news-events/events/working-dog-competition/?goback=%2Egde_1098397_member_206210827

I assume there will be a few weredogs, maybe even 1 or 2 werewolves, who will attend and compete. Most will want to compete as dogs. Some will have to be handlers. REMINDER: Dog-hanlder teams cannot participate if both are werefolk, either weredog-weredog OR weredog-werewolf. Don't laugh. We all know it has happened.

K9 Veterans Day - 13 March

This group was founded by Joe White who was a dog handler in Vietnam. He died in 2009. He and his wife have done a lot to get dogs recognized for their military service.

Here is the URL/link: http://k9veteransday.org/

More posts to come. Digging out of a deep hole.

Vane in Turkey

Been thinking about Vane. He is in Turkey living in what can only be described as a dog sanctuary, several remote villages populated by werefolk and people.

He got out of Iraq in 2011 with 32 dogs and pups. They made their way into Kurdistan, picking up more dogs along the way. A few became werefolk, mostly weredogs. But not all.

In my recent travels I found Vane and spent some time with his werefolk and people. I could have stayed much longer. That part of the world is not kind to dogs. Strays are common.

There are a number of new dog TV shows, such as Dogs in the City (CBS) and One Nation Under Dog (HBO). Americans spend billions each year on their pets, most of that on dogs. At the same time puppy mills and dog abuse continues and wolves are still hunted and pressured in those few places in the U.S. where they are trying to hang on.

In truth, mankind inflicts more barbarity on itself than on canines. That is the human way. Aggression and violence is at the core of the human condition. Were that not the case humans would not have survived as a species. Fighting has always been part of survival.

We weredogs have always known this, and learned to live with it, to accept it. But things are different now. Mankind has the means to take barbarity to a terrifying level. In light of this, many weredogs are adopting attitudes toward mankind which have always been considered heresy.