{"id":9504,"date":"2011-02-12T04:00:11","date_gmt":"2011-02-12T11:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/?p=9504"},"modified":"2011-02-17T21:52:42","modified_gmt":"2011-02-18T04:52:42","slug":"the-dog-trainer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/2011\/02\/12\/the-dog-trainer\/","title":{"rendered":"The dog trainer"},"content":{"rendered":"

Pure joy.<\/i><\/p>\n

Coming from one who has never met a dog he does not like, what follows is a highly biased account. <\/p>\n

I was pedaling around the bay, in the area of that soulless ball park which AT&T has foisted on the long suffering inhabitants of San Francisco, when my eye was caught by a flurry of activity on the east side of the stadium. Taking advantage of the BikeCam<\/a> I was there seconds later, chatting with this man surrounded by some twenty dogs.<\/p>\n

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“What’s with all the dogs?”<\/p>\n

“I’m a professional dog trainer and this is where I exercise them daily”, he replied, proceeding to name each of the twenty by name, specifying their breed. All but one pure bred and the basenji a stowaway on a ship from Thailand! Every dog responded to his name by bounding up and jumping all over him with an expression of pure delight. What had been a blah day (I had been trying to take good pictures of the UCSF Mission complex<\/a>, which is arguably impossible) turned into a glorious one, just like that, as I shared in the experience with this utterly charming man. Even the fearsome looking bull terrier ambled up and gave me a nice, long lick and a wag. Yes, I checked, and my hand was still there.<\/p>\n

I related, of course, that the house pet is a vicious Border Terrier and swear that a look of abject fear flitted across his face. Such is terrier power.<\/p>\n

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…. and this one is Rex ….”<\/i><\/center><\/p>\n

As he composed himself, I cycled about a bit marveling at this spectacle and, as I made my way back to the city, saw the lot of them engaged in some sort of competitive ball game, right by that stretch of water where a big hit from the ball park splashes down.<\/p>\n

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Want a long, healthy, happy life? Get a dog.<\/p>\n

All snaps on the Panny G1 with the kit zoom.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Pure joy. Coming from one who has never met a dog he does not like, what follows is a highly biased account. I was pedaling around the bay, in the area of that soulless ball park which AT&T has foisted on the long suffering inhabitants of San Francisco, when my eye was caught by a … Continue reading The dog trainer<\/span> →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-photographs"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9504"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9504\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9707,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9504\/revisions\/9707"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/pindelski.org\/Photography\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}