Well, not entirely.
It has been a glorious day.
The dog and I went for our trot at Cottesbrooke. We listened to the skylarks. And other flying creatures. I have this theory that birds are ventriloquists. There's a tree. No leaves yet. You hear above you something very loud, singing away fit to burst. Your ears tell you, it's there! But you look and it's not. It's not there! Is this some clever device to make other birds think they'd have a huge territory? But surely the other birds would have adapted and be able to tell where the tricky critter was? I don't know.
Inconclusive.
My cousin - who used to be a cancer researcher - answered my question for the next essay... I have been wondering about a research proposal that I can submit to ethical analysis. Andrew Knight, a big player in scientists against animal research, suggested, as I mentioned, depression. I was thinking rats and monkeys but didn't know if a proposal would have two species.
My cousin said yes. Rats are too different from people to be conclusive and dogs are used to determine dosage. Still, they do still use rats so she said rats and dogs! She said, what about actual people's dogs? Find depressed dogs through vets! Depressed dogs? I guess dogs whose person has died? It would be great though as then the dogs would not be lab animals but would be living in a real-world environment. Albeit one that made them depressed. I can imagine neurotic dogs. ADHD dogs. OCD dogs. But depressed dogs?
Mind you, my dog is seldom the life and soul of the party.
He did, though, jump his aged body over this stream today. He does not like to get his feet wet.
Comentários