discriminate words uttered by humans from other words—especially their own names, because a cat’s name is a salient stimulus as it may be the human utterance most frequently heard by domestic cats (cats kept by humans) and may be associated with rewards, such as food, petting, and play...
as we have said, remain calm and wait for their humans to come to say hello. In these cases, as the animal shows a totally calm attitude, it is possible to greet them with petting, words of encouragement, etc. Other dogs tend to greet their humans more effusively. If ...
37 1 The only time you ever got to second base was at the petting zoo. 38 1 Is that your face--or are you breaking it in for a bulldog? 39 1 You have an hourglass figure. Too bad the sand settled in all the wrong places. 40 1 You have such a striking face. Tell me, how...
I said. “All we have to do is hide them for three days?” “Yup.” I turned around and bent down to pet the reindeer nearest to me. The three other ones came and crowded around me and soon I was petting each in turn. They were making soft whinnying noises of happiness. “I ...
After breakfast we headed to Yarralumla Play Station for Canberra themed mini-golf and a mini train ride to a petting zoo. The mini-golf was hilarious, the mini-train was very very small. Small was the theme of the rest of our Canberra adventure. We finished with the Dinsoaur Museum an...
I love the infinite potential for variety in language…I saw a post somewhere this week that went something like“Tear and tier are pronounced the same but tear and tear are different…arghhhh!”Some words have a varied array of meanings depending on the context. Others are more simple. Tak...
Several months ago, when the patient support group that I attend first began discussingBorrelia miyamotoi, a Google search (or Bing…whatever…) for those two odd words yeilded very little. Now, after the publishing of a few key papers in theNew England Journal of Medicine, every major news...
When you say, “I love you,” the words tumble out of your mouth like chewing gum. “I love you.” What does that even mean? Like the mechanical regurgitation of an automaton. Shut up! Don’t tell me. I want you to SHOW me! ShowmeshowmeSHOW me, don’t tell me, because if yo...
themselves. The words are crushed till they spit out from the speakers as a blizzard of staccato shards of sound. Layer upon layer of overloaded electronic drones are the sea upon what the texts are buoyed upon with the shifting static giving the voice an almost transcendental air of mystery....
Tony did not roar at her for petting them, perhaps, because they spent money on the multi-hued candy in glass jars on the shelves. Her mother appeared upon the scene once, and stayed a short time; but Tony got drunk one day and beat her because she ate too much, and she disappeared...