The pups probably saw it as a time to play and explore. There wasn’t a shadow from clouds anywhere on the plains. XXX The hormones were rampant and it shouldn’t have made any difference for me, a human, but it seemed to. I saw Ma rise, caught her staring at me as she walked past, then give a gentle bark to the young ones and an even gentler bark to Dau. At ground level, the view was difficult. It was time to re-explore the larger valley and the plain to the east. As a result, the three of them rutted like wild animals. All canines are opportunistic feeders. We don’t see images with our eyes; our eyes see line and motion, our brains interpret that to attempt to recognize what sort of thing those lines and motion might represent; and then our
