He clearly rejected several of them by turning his head away.\u00a0 Between us we managed to reduce his toys by 1\/3 and the ones that stayed clearly give him joy-joy feelings as they say in Demolition Man<\/em>.\u00a0 He’ll play tug of war with them, throw them around as if subduing a rabbit or some other yard demon, and basically have a great time.<\/p>\n I wonder if he’ll be willing to consult with me when I de-clutter my library.<\/p>\n A veteran of university teaching, Lev Raphael now offers creative writing workshops online at writewithoutborders.com<\/a>.\u00a0 <\/strong>He’s the author of the forthcoming mystery<\/strong> State University of Murder<\/a> and 25 other books in a wide range of genres.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" My six-year-old Westie loves watching television, even if there aren’t any dogs, horses, or other animals to bark at or observe. When we’re done with our dinner, he’ll sit close by and wait for his cue. When I say “We’re going to watch television,” he troops off to the living room, picks a chair, sits … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1149],"tags":[1449,1710,5,1677,1439,1706,216,1676,1702,1709,1703,1707,1446,1445,1219],"class_list":["post-4461","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","tag-babe","tag-demolition-man","tag-books","tag-de-cluttering","tag-dogs","tag-folding","tag-humor","tag-marie-kondo","tag-sandra-bullock","tag-state-university-of-murder","tag-sylvester-stallone","tag-too-many-books","tag-west-highland-white-terriers","tag-westies","tag-writewithoutborders-com"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.levraphael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4461","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.levraphael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.levraphael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.levraphael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.levraphael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4461"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/www.levraphael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4461\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4501,"href":"https:\/\/www.levraphael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4461\/revisions\/4501"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.levraphael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4461"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.levraphael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4461"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.levraphael.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4461"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"http:\/\/www.levraphael.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/02\/babe.jpg\")
<\/a>So given his responsiveness, I thought I’d have him watch some of Marie Kondo’s show, and while he’s not very good at folding, he did seem fascinated.\u00a0 That’s when I thought it might be time to organize his toy basket because some of the stuffed animals looked pretty disreputable after a few years of chewing, tugging, and chomping.<\/p>\n