Man's Best Friend - 15,000 Years Ago In Britain

Hi Dormouse, thank you for sharing this positive and interesting story. Dogs are great companions and my woofer is certainly my best mate. Our ancestors' brains were well developed and I sense we still underestimate them, through our own pride at technological achievement and the paucity of records from those times. We owe them so much, including domestication of dogs!

I have found it worth paying attention to those canines familiar with me (any, not just pets); as I have come to realise while my alexithymia might be operating in a time warp / lag zone ...a savvy dog can provide me an advance nudge about "whatever" they might have noticed in me - while I was still oblivious.

Yes! That happens to me as well, Dormouse. I had pet rabbits some years back, and they seemed to know too. 

I agree, ideally wild. My rabbits were all rescues too. Rabbits are rather nuanced and I have never heard it expressed like that before, Dormouse - well put! Once I ended up looking after sheep, goats and hens for some weeks on a smallholding. Poppy the goat was good natured and we got on well. The Suffolk flock was also gentle but prone to mischief and mishaps. The hens were, as yours, either very interested (dinnertime) or not. 

I agree, ideally wild. My rabbits were all rescues too. Rabbits are rather nuanced and I have never heard it expressed like that before, Dormouse - well put! Once I ended up looking after sheep, goats and hens for some weeks on a smallholding. Poppy the goat was good natured and we got on well. The Suffolk flock was also gentle but prone to mischief and mishaps. The hens were, as yours, either very interested (dinnertime) or not.