i was lamenting today how comet is taking after hilde when i had to pry his jaws open to eject some unidentified object he was trying to swallow. i just read a hilarious post by jon katz about gus the boston terrier called gus is disgusting, and now, thanks jon, i feel much better about the pointers. i must say hilde eats some very peculiar stuff, often plastic and other inorganic manufacture, but maybe not living on a farm, not quite as disgusting as gus, though she tries, and the city does yield a bounty quite disgusting enough. but gus continually wolfs down and barfs up disgusting offal. and sometimes he just retches and gags for amusement, nothing comes out. 
i was feeling like kind of a loser, watching the pointers browsing rabbit turds while i waited to play ball, but hearing about gus made me feel grand, amused, grateful, and not such an ineffectual dog boy after all. dogs like people gonna do what they gonna do.