Animal behavior: Going to the dogs

By Kevin Horrigan

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

(MCT)

At some point during President Bush's first term, it was reported that the president liked to relax by taking his dog, Spot, out to the South Lawn of the White House. The Leader of the Free World would take a tennis racket with him and whack balls across the lawn for Spot to retrieve.

I read that and thought, "Cool." The president has figured out how to avoid STBS: slobbery tennis ball syndrome. I thought, "President Bush is a genius," which is an odd sentence to write, but the man had solved one of life's enduring problems.

KRT Wire | 07/12/2006 | Animal behavior: Going to the dogs