Cayenne Pepper is an Australian shepherd I had from a puppy. We take part in the sport called agility, where we negotiate 20 obstacles and judges evaluate us for speed and accuracy. It is a team sport where we have to learn to move as a single, new entity. To do that with a member of another species is not at all the same thing as doing it with a cheating, language-wielding hominid partner.rnWhat else can you achieve through your relationship with Cayenne?rnI'm interested in taking the ordinary seriously. Here I am, a white, late-middle-aged, middle-class academic having inherited the gender apparatus of white sentimental culture and a history of pet-keeping.
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