“Dogs can be trained to do a number of useful things. They have keen hearing and even keener noses, so they can warn you of the approach of wild ani...als or strangers. They also will fight for you against predators, and as they are pack animals, they willingly fight as a pack to bring down a predator. They are also friendly with humans, once trained to know who is their master; like a pack leader. We have a few with our tribe, but not enough to spare for other tribes, until they breed; so a year. Business was more or less back to normal, but they were running out of most everything, including canned goods. The only thing that they didn’t seem to be short of was Lima beans.I asked, “Lima beans?”“Aye,” he told me, “seems no one likes them, even when there no other choice.” Obviously, they didn’t have Cook preparing them.Then he mentioned TP... TP? I had to ask.“Yes, toilet paper, TP,” he looked at me like ... well, I couldn’t be sure what his thoughts were, but clearly, they must have. “You look different,” Penny announced aloud, so that everyone heard her, even though her comment was to me. “Did you get a haircut?”It was an innocent question, but one that got a lot of people looking at me a little more closely. It didn’t take long for other people to nod their heads and to make one or two comments.“She’s right,” Rita pointed out with a hint of amazement in her voice. “Jake has had a haircut and his beard has been trimmed as well.”“Look, his boots are polished,” Carmen let. She then opened her mouth wide, the water pouring into her mouth with a unique swishing sound. Her throat muscles contracted quickly as she did her best to swallow every drop and only after about fifteen seconds, she choked, spit up the remaining water and turned her head down. She was amazed how incredibly submissive it made her feel so she tried two more times, the length of her doing the task increasing. She then turned off the water, dried off and headed to bed for the evening.Early the.