W. BRUCE CAMERON - My Father the Dog Trainer

My parents are the kind of people who believe that dogs understand full sentences, like this: “OK, we’re going to the store, we’ll be gone a couple of hours, please stay out of the trash and don’t lie on my bed, that’s off limits and you know it!”

What the dog thinks: Bed!

So my father is perplexed that his two canines continue to bark at everyone who comes to the door, even though he’s sternly delivered his sermon “Thou Shalt Not Bark at the Person at the Door Unless He Is a Criminal.” When it’s my dad at the door, the dogs bark even at him, though they are always wagging their tails to indic...