Sunday, May 01, 2005

Memories

I had a dog named Jiggs when I was a kid. He loved to travel until that night our Model T smacked into a cow. When a Model T hits a cow it has a tendency to cause bowel movements in dogs that happen to be riding in the vehicle. Pavlov, you my remember, proved this with his experiments.
After that Jiggs resisted riding in our car. It was pushed up pretty much like an accordion anyway and so was crowded, even in the back seat.
We lived in Iowa and naturally, when we traveled, we saw lots of cows. It I was alert I would cover Jiggs' eyes when we got near one. But when I was not on watch, and we passed one, Jiggs would jump into my lap and make my life miserable. As Pavlov demonstrated in another of his experiments, such situations often scare the piss right out of a dog, even an English Bulldog like Jiggs.
Jiggs added proof to another Pavlov experiment in which he demonstrated that when fear didn't scare the piss out of his dog it often aroused him. The dog, that is. This led to the expression, Jiggs Up. And indeed it is. Talk to you later.