BEYOND PUPPYDOM: INCIDENTS, ACCIDENTS, EXPLORATIONS AND MAYHEM: RORY DYLAN STEPHEN TELLS IT LIKE IT IS: RORY’S TREATMENT PLAN: WHO ARE THESE MYSTERIOUS CHINESE DIPLOMATS?

While preparing for our alpine walk in the afternoon Fritz, the institute’s porter, pulled me aside informing me three Chinese diplomats (verified by showing their credentials)insisted upon seeing me but due to a strict no contact or visitor’s policy Fritz would not let them enter the premises. Although with ten 100 Euro banknotes and aContinue reading “BEYOND PUPPYDOM: INCIDENTS, ACCIDENTS, EXPLORATIONS AND MAYHEM: RORY DYLAN STEPHEN TELLS IT LIKE IT IS: RORY’S TREATMENT PLAN: WHO ARE THESE MYSTERIOUS CHINESE DIPLOMATS?”

BEYOND PUPPYDOM: INCIDENTS, ACCIDENTS, EXPLORATIONS AND MAYHEM: RORY DYLAN STEPHEN TELLS IT LIKE IT IS: RORY’S TREATMENT PLAN: MINDFULNESS THERAPY

After our lunch we attend mindfulness training. You might want to say mindfulness now runs in the family as Bob is certified in mindfulness by the University of Toronto and the University of Leiden in the Netherlands and has conducted a few workshops on it. Very basically, as this novice canine interprets mindfulness, it isContinue reading “BEYOND PUPPYDOM: INCIDENTS, ACCIDENTS, EXPLORATIONS AND MAYHEM: RORY DYLAN STEPHEN TELLS IT LIKE IT IS: RORY’S TREATMENT PLAN: MINDFULNESS THERAPY”

BEYOND PUPPYDOM: INCIDENTS, ACCIDENTS, EXPLORATIONS AND MAYHEM: RORY DYLAN STEPHEN TELLS IT LIKE IT IS: RORY’S TREATMENT PLAN: MEDITATIVE THERAPY

In our first group session of meditative therapy Dr. Skilos explained the goal of us learning how to and appreciate the effects of meditation. We had difficulty understanding him when he told us mediation is about being. Once you are in a meditative mind it is you and there is nothing but you. He saidContinue reading “BEYOND PUPPYDOM: INCIDENTS, ACCIDENTS, EXPLORATIONS AND MAYHEM: RORY DYLAN STEPHEN TELLS IT LIKE IT IS: RORY’S TREATMENT PLAN: MEDITATIVE THERAPY”

BEYOND PUPPYDOM: INCIDENTS, ACCIDENTS, EXPLORATIONS AND MAYHEM: RORY DYLAN STEPHEN TELLS IT LIKE IT IS: ONCE STUNG ALWAYS SHY

I can scarcely believe I am in Switzerland undergoing “medical treatment” but then again after my Southeast Asian abduction adventures my life seems destined to be one of a rapid maturity. My philosophy is roll with the punches. Playing along with my abductors in New Jersey, Singapore, Thailand, Cambodia and Malaysia saw me through safelyContinue reading “BEYOND PUPPYDOM: INCIDENTS, ACCIDENTS, EXPLORATIONS AND MAYHEM: RORY DYLAN STEPHEN TELLS IT LIKE IT IS: ONCE STUNG ALWAYS SHY”

BEYOND PUPPYDOM: INCIDENTS, ACCIDENTS, EXPLORATIONS AND MAYHEM: RORY DYLAN STEPHEN TELLS IT LIKE IT IS: RORY DYLAN STEPHEN AIRLIFTED TO SWITZERLAND FOR MEDICAL CARE

RORY DYLAN STEPHEN AIRLIFTED TO SWITZERLAND FOR MEDICAL CARE Bob, Fay and Raffles were very concerned with my uncharacteristic behaviour. Not eating well, apathetic and reluctant to go out on my usual multitude of walks. It was the crying in my sleep and refusal to chase tennis balls that sounded the alarm bells. Bob isContinue reading “BEYOND PUPPYDOM: INCIDENTS, ACCIDENTS, EXPLORATIONS AND MAYHEM: RORY DYLAN STEPHEN TELLS IT LIKE IT IS: RORY DYLAN STEPHEN AIRLIFTED TO SWITZERLAND FOR MEDICAL CARE”