Why do humans waste so much time and energy training their dogs to do their business (or as my Humum embarrassingly calls it, our ‘empties’) outside? When we do eventually ‘empty’ in the correct place they rush over, often bending down behind us whilst we’re mid-empty, their plastic-bagged claw hovering like a hungry hawk distractingly close to our rear ready to whip its prey into the nearest waste receptacle faster than you can say Dr Poolittle. If they are going to grab and drop, why go to all the bother of making us do it outside in the first place? Surely that’s the equivalent of them emptying into the toilet bowl, fishing it back out again and dumping it down the waste disposal? Madness. Je ne comprends pas!
