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A self-published author living in Texas, formerly from Twitter and Mastodon.lol. She/her. Writing, dreams, politics, science, and metaphysics. "On the left" but ambivalent about social democracy versus democratic socialism. Sometimes I rant about leptons or my childhood.

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Nowhere Girl 2 months ago (Received 1 month ago) • mastodon (AP)

I would kill or die for Larry the cat.

A small operation in Oregon that hunts truffles with a trained dog has added an unpaid trainee. A cat named Larry accompanies the handler and the truffle dog into the woods every outing, works a patch of ground a little apart from them, and digs with tremendous confidence in places where there is nothing.

The handler says Larry has never found a truffle and shows no sign of understanding the assignment. He does not use scent the way the dog does and he does not respond when the dog makes a find.

He simply digs his own holes nearby and then inspects them. "He thinks he's on the team," the handler said. "He is emphatically not on the team."

TRUFFLE DOG FINDS THE TRUFFLES -
'TRAINEE' CAT DIGS RANDOM HOLES AND FINDS DIRT

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