Hansel and Gretel Revisited - the Great Outside

ETA: 100606 approx 2.30 pm
Maybe one of the lessons people learn from fairy tales is that they sometimes have good lessons, practical lessons even. I used the Hansel and Gretel technique of breadcrumbs to entice Toro to the door - one bream flake at a time. Of course I had Toro in the harness before that and had allowed him to feel the weight of the leash. He had 5 minutes of close supervision before following the Bream-Flake trail.
Several bream flakes later, I got him at the doorway where he stopped to meditate the folly of his actions :) I let him sit there for some minutes and hung out together.


Toro sat down at the edge; notice the front paw at the very edge of the doorway :) I can see he was wary of the Outside. He looked right and left like a pedestrian crossing a road. Indeed he himself was at a crossing of sorts- to meet the Outside or not to meet. Eternal questions worthy of Hamlet himself :)

Here I cheated a little. I gave Bujang a bream flake well away from the door. Indeed lucky Bujang had several bream flakes and Toro was beside himself with the unfairness of it all. He put on great big foreleg right out of the door, making his intention of getting the next bream flake quite clear. But it was too far away for him. Poor thing!


Finally he could stand it no longer and decided that the Outside was the place to be for bream flakes and 2 paws out would surely get him there.

HURRAH! He stood still for abit and made a bid for the pots and the bream flakes too :)

After this, I did not have to give him anymorebream flakes as the Outside proved a better option. He sat and walked and sniffed and explored. He looked at the sky and felt the coolness of the breeze.

Good Boy Toro. You are quite magnificent :))