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More Dad lessons

My hero pop - I spent a few days with him this week. He is over eighty, a cancer survivor, has very poor eyesight and yet wakes up before us all and encourages us strongly to accompany him on eighteen holes of golf as often as possible. This is after being in icu for a month on a ventilator just six months ago and recovering from a broken arm just a month ago. Nothing stops him.  He has his will on his side. We sat and spoke about animal behaviour during some down time and once again he got me thinking. He practised as a vet for over fifty years and this in the day when most insight was discovered hands on. Without ultrasounds or x-rays. And from a behaviour point of view he was winging it and learning how to ensure the most practical safe solutions all the time. He felt his way to success. We were speaking about how dogs seem to sense fear. He believes this was one of his biggest lessons and suggests that if we are afraid we are basically unpredictable. So it makes complete sense f