Sometimes I Am So Dry

What They Smell Isn't The Emotion Of Fear. What Dogs Can Smell Is The Changes In A Person's Skin That Suggest Fear To The Dog, Anxiety, The Way Your Skin Sweats, The Amount Of Uric Acid That Suddenly Pours Out Of Your Pores.

I Began To Encounter Real-life Stories Of Dogs Protecting Their Wounded Or Dying Or Dead Handler... Or Dogs Refusing To Leave The Bodies Of The People They Were Bonded To, Sitting In Cemeteries For Days Or Sometimes Weeks. You Find These Stories Endlessly.

I Admire People Who Re-create Themselves. And It Seems To Me That What Gives Us All The Opportunity To Be Heroic In Our Own Lives Is That We Work To Heal Ourselves And Be Better Than We Were Yesterday.

People Want You To Be Ordinary. They Don't Like It When People Are Different. They Don't Like It When A Man Soars Over Their Heads While They Stand In The Dirt. People Hate You When You're Special; It Reminds Them Of Everything That They Aren't.

At Lackland Air Force Base, They Make An Effort To Retrain Military Dogs That Suffer From Ptsd. It's A Lengthy, Long Process. The Treatment Is Much The Same As It Would Be For People, But It's A Difficult Road Back.