If I had cheerfully called “Tulip, Tulip! Come!” and clapped my hands with her usual recall signal, she would’ve kept on trucking. After all, I said that repeated notes encourage activity; I didn’t say where that activity would be directed. The last thing Tulip needed at that point was sounds designed to stimulate her; she was so excited when she came back that she hyperventilated for ten minutes. I wanted to inhibit her, not stimulate her, so I did what the Basque sheepdog handlers and the Peruvian Quechua horse trainers did when they needed a quick stop on a running animal. I belted out one
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