Farm Boy: “I had this herding dog, once, as a kid. All it wanted to do was herd sheep or ducks back home at night. It would nip at your ankles anytime you tried to go off on a walk or ignore it, too. Cutest thing imaginable. And as it got older and older and its knees started getting arthritic, we figured it would enjoy retirement after a life well lived. And so we gave it the cozy, warm barn all to itself full of toys, food, and blankets. We would spend hours with it every day. We didn’t realize it, but for the next few months, what we thought was placid contentment in his body language was
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