Pain and heartache, joy and adventure, a reason to hurry home and a sadness to leave - they're all part of having a dog. I've had three that I can remember and I think of them all as having been pretty special. Mind you there were times that my parents weren't all that thrilled about having a dog but they hung in there anyway. My mother wasn't tickled to death to discover my pant cuffs almost hanging off on not one but many occasions. Of course, it all started innocently as these things always do and like any boy-dog situation a little fun turns into more fun and caution gets literally thrown to the wind. A boy rides his bicycle slowly down the street with his dog sauntering along beside him and the boy playfully nudges the dog with his foot. The dog takes up the cue and gives the boy a playful half bite on the ankle. It isn't long before the boy is being dragged right off his bicycle by the pant leg and by the laughter you can tel] he loves it. Boy and dog engage in tug of war using boy's pant leg Oh how i envy the capable "do-it-yourself" type. Country folks, generally speaking, are capable becaise when they need a job done it has to be done quick -- and the quickest way is for them to do it themselves. The average farmer and many town peovle tooqfor that The Battle of the Sexes is once again shaping up, thanks to a recent statement by the advisory council on the status of women. As you may all know, the federal body which expounds Women's Lib ideas and fights for equal rights for women (and why not for men?) suggests that women should move their bank accounts from those MORTGAGES 1 M 1T E D itt A 2nd'Arrixngdi sought opd Sold at Prime Rates ci Peter Kade 668-1556 iANIS INVESTMENTS Ltd. 14t rock St.N., Whltby and next morning standing by the washing machine mother blows top Any expert will tell you that dogs are quite well equipped to sleep just about anywhere. Rocks, fields, porches, hardwood floors, carpets and beds. But, since a dog is often your best friend at ten years old and, as anyone can tell you, it's not polite to ask your best friend to sleep on the floor, where else should lie sleep but in bed with you? The dog would rather sleep at the foot of the bed because it's much cooler but the boy knows the meanie.parents will object so the dog is smuggled under the blankets where he tries hard not to slaver and suffocate while his master tried ta blend his lump in with the rest. As history tells us, the boy seldom succeeds and the dog gets the boot out of the bedroom. Boys, dogs and burrs are an unbeatable combination. If any laundry soap maker ever comes up with a product that will make burrs dissolve he'll make a fortune. An incredible number of manholes are wasted each year by boys picking burrs off dogs, socks, pants and jackets and, yet, if you asked any of those boys they would all deny it was a waste of time. Fortunately, dogs are drip dry because it solves at least half the problem when a boy and his dog go adventuring in the spring and find themselves an overflowing creek. Unknown puddles must be probed and as often as not witli disastrous results. With the spring runoff, what used to be only ankle deep is suddenly waste deep and what used to be a clean pair of jeans are suddenly turned into a muddy, sodden mess. I remember one adventure as a young boy when I decided to take my trusty dog out for a run in a nearbv matter, have little difficulty in putting up a small shed, papering a bedroorn or building a fence across a field or around their own private property. There is no comparison between their carpentry talent and my pathetic efforts spread over the past quarter- century. I've got a set of "do-it-yourself" encyclopedias (19 in all, would you believe). i love to thumb through the, gaze at the picture-projects and even study how to master the so-called simplicity of making a bookcase, table or two wooden chairs for the garden. Weil, my efforts seeni to be a string of tragedies, I once owned a beautiful rabbit, donated by a magician. We named him Magic. I decided to build hini a home. Starting early one Saturday morning, I put together what would appear to be a wooden box, 3' x 2'. In the box, I placed a divider and the left-hand portion was to be the bedroom. This I covered with chicken wire and nailed it down firmly. Then I worked laboriously on naking a door for the right-hand portion. By late afternoon, I had the banks which do not have wonen board directors. The advisory council-a perfect place for frustrated fenales who can't inake it on their own-now wants to put the whole banking system into a tizzy. That they are serious about this is a bit friglhtening, says one bank official. I'd worry too, if I hîad a wife at hione like Carmel Hurley who says: "I don't really have enough money in the bank to count, but I think we should al] pull out and show these (male) chauvinists just how much power we women reallv have" WHITBY FREE PRESS, WE DNESDAY, 0CTO BER 13, 1976, PAGE 5 apple orchard and, whilst munching apples, we would look for the difficult-to-find and hard-to-track-down beast of the jungle -- the rabbit. It wasn't long before the prey surfaced and took off with my trusty dog in hot pursuit. Unfortunately, he was still tied to a rather long line which even more unfortunately was still tied to my left wrist. My adventurous afternoon suddenly turned into a bouncing, bumping, careening, ricochéting, mud plowing (with niy nose) nightmare. No, we never caught the rabbit but the pair of us did catch the devil when we got home. The dog was banished to the basement and I was sentenced to doing time in the bedroom. On another occasion, my trusty dog and I decided to find high adventure on a nearby golf course. The grass was short and not at all wet and there was plenty of room to run and just generally act carefree as boys and dogs are wont to do. When we arrived at a round section of grass that was cut particularly short my dog heard a clunk and suddenly spotted a little white ball heading for a stick which was poking up out of the ground. Being the expert retreiver that he was, he raced in quickly and snatched up the quarry before it had a chance to run down the hole where the stick was. Not being too much brighter but having a little more education than my trusty dog I sensed that a man running towards us swinging a golf club might now have good reason for wanting to get his hands on the pair of us. We retreated quickly, never to be seen on that golf course again. But, do you really think this world would be a better place without boys and their dogs? Me too! so-called door hinged onto the right-hand portion, and even placed a small retaining wooden hand blockto keepthe door fastened. I then mounted the entire 'home' for our rabbit. Magic, on wooden stilts to allow the air to circulate underneath. Here it comes. After placing straw inside the rabbit's cage -- i placed Magic proudly in his new home. Our new pet looked me in the eyes, turned around, and with a mighty thump, lashed out with one of his massive back feet and kicked the door clean off its hinges! To the bystanders, which included the neighbours, it was hilarious. And, I guess it was. To me, it was a total disaster, but, when I look back on it, I tind it one of the funniest moments of an amateur "do-it-yourselfer". This year, after 25 years, I finally made a sturdy 36" x 12" raised wooden planter. It's full of flowers and should last for years. I'm proud of it. Wouldn't you be? bearing male chauvinist names wiil have to be burned publicly and any other traces of male domain (needless to say) would have to be done away with. I think Whitby could serve as a pilot for the new al-male or all-female banking system to be set up at the four corners. One morning, I look out the window and guess what I see. A brand new building rising on the northeast corner, replacing the old chauvinist institution, better known as "The Royal Bank of Canada". The building is under heavy (female) construction. I see one pretty face Okay, okay, Carmel. Lt's change the banking system. swinging a sledge hamrer. 1 dare ta ask her: "Hey, Miss, I can sec now, says, all-female, ail-male banks being set up why does a pretty girl like you have ta work sa hard? across Canada. Of course, a brand new Bank Act will be That's a man's.job". required and the present banking patterns would have to be discarded completely. 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