A Comic Fable of Royalty, Wizards and Reputations
“… Deafness may have been long-established in a breed but kept hidden from outsiders to protect reputations. ….[1]” Some of the people and organizations were innocent unknowing participants in withholding facts about the deafness of certain breeds of dogs and telling vicious stories about the risks of deaf dogs to themselves and the general public. Other people and organizations caused deaf dogs to be born and then killed them for gains of one sort or another. To protect the privacy and reputation of innocent dogs and people, these “adventures” were presented as a satirical fable.
Once upon a time, about 1980, the Board advisors of powerful royalty told their clients of a Serious PR problem, so the royalty changed their deodorant. Didn’t help. So the advisors explained that PR was Public Relations, and the peasants were revolting because the royalty were demanding that all the deaf puppies born in his kingdom each year must be killed to drive deafness from the kingdom, to keep up the royalty’s reputation and Treasury. Well, they agreed that the peasants were revoltingly disobedient and suggested that the advisors foreclose on the peasants to get fresh ones who would be more obedient. That didn’t work either, because the peasants were clever and covered their donkeys and other assets.
So the Board recommended that the Treasury hire a Wizard who was said to dislike dogs and unlikely to get emotionally involved. The wizard must discover at any costs why the favorite dogs refused to hear and obey the Royal commands as obediently as did the advisors. Of course, the wizard must prove his or her mettle by first testing only deaf dogs. Also, wizards perhaps from other shops must study the other dogs (very cheaply) to find a way to convince the peasants that the Royalty and Royalty Clubs (RCs) cared about the peasants and their dogs of all breeds. Somehow the advisors must discover a way to magically get rid of those unwanted [expletive deleted] deaf puppies that were bad for the Treasury and the Royal PR. So, they hired wizards whose titles included Academic titles, degrees, association affiliations and other awesome symbols of sagacity.
The First Enchantments - Tried and Failed
Immediately the advisors rounded up over 4,000 of the RCs favorite dogs, and sent them to the Bayou Shop to be tested with the latest most magical technologically advanced lightning, smoke and mirrors test, called the Magical-Bear. Ordinary peasants and their dog doctors were pleased by the Royal help.
Soon after, about the year 1996, see Table 1, the wizard bravely and apparently honestly reported to the whole world that 30 out of every hundred of the puppies born must be killed because they refused to hear and obey as well as did the advisors. In fact it seemed nearly 20 of each hundred heard with one ear, and somehow eight could learn to perceive mechanical vibrations in the air (sounds) without using their ears, and the rest heard in the same way as the advisors.
Well, that was unacceptable because the emotionally sensitive and ethical peasants just couldn’t stand the idea of killing sometimes almost 30 of every hundred puppies born to their dogs, just to please the Royalty and their advisors. Many of the unwanted pups were sent off on an underground railroad to rescue shelters, where many puppies were adopted into caring kind homes. Unfortunately, some of the unwanted puppies didn’t escape, were treated very badly, and became very unhappy.
So the advisors sent another nearly 400 dogs to be magical-Bear tested. Lo and behold, they also were deaf in the same ways. Then another 600 were rounded up and sent. To the Wizard’s and advisors’ dismay, the results were almost the same as those of the earlier years.
Even worse, the advisors learned that some of the peasants were killing unwanted deaf puppies without reporting it as they were supposed to be instructed by the advisors. In rare places, the puppies to be killed each year could reach nearly half (50 percent) those born in some families.
Table 1 Result of Magical-Bear Tests
Report Tested One-ear Two-ears
Year Dogs deaf % deaf % Total %
1996 4600 22 8 30
1999 5000 22 8 30
2010 5600 21.7 7.8 30
Of course by the year 2010 the Advisors were very nervous, but never fear, they were already at the same time trying three more enchantments to protect the Royal PR and the Treasury. The Advisors didn’t believe in “three-strikes and you’re Out.” – They were going for Victory in Four.
The Second Enchantment Failed to for-sure Find Worse Deafness Dogs’ Breeds
From some time before 1995, the advisors decided to try to confuse the peasants by proving that the other popular breeds of aristocratic Royalty Clubs (RC) heard just as poorly as the favorites of the Royal Treasury. The wizards, being honest fellows, reported to the whole world, Table 2 that the 400 ESetters they tested likewise refused to obey the regal rules, although they were only about half as disobedient as the favorites [16 instead of 30 in each hundred]. Well, maybe the wizards could get better numbers if with they had more ESetters to test; so they sent another 130. Oh Dear, not only didn’t the numbers of bad dogs go UP closer, the numbers went DOWN! SO, the wizards were paid (we suppose they were paid) to test another 170. O, Oh Dear; the scores of the ESetters went down even more!
Because the Advisors were fairly bright, to prevent their reputation among the peasants from getting worse, they decided to stop sending ESetters to the Wizards. Obviously there would soon be no Bad ESetters in the world at all if the Wizard continued to test more and more of them.
Table 2 Results of ESetters’ Magical-Bear Tests
Report Tested
Year Dogs Uni-deaf Bi-deaf Sum
1996 400 13 3 16
1999 530 12 2 14
2010 700 10 2 12
Well, with more stubbornness than good judgment, the advisors did likewise send off to the Wizards: Australians, ECockers, BullyTs, Catahowlers, JRusTs and a few others. Soon the advisors (we suppose), discovered that if they collected dogs of the other breeds by telling the peasants scary stories and promising that the dogs would be given free tests to detect violations of the RC laws, the fearful honest worried peasants would hustle in with their delinquents for test. Then the wizards could advise each peasant to euthanize (kill) every one of the “dangerously defective” dogs that did or would maybe someday violate the laws.
[1] <http://www.lsu.edu/deafness/genetics.htm> September 8, 2005, download Sep 2010
Once upon a time, about 1980, the Board advisors of powerful royalty told their clients of a Serious PR problem, so the royalty changed their deodorant. Didn’t help. So the advisors explained that PR was Public Relations, and the peasants were revolting because the royalty were demanding that all the deaf puppies born in his kingdom each year must be killed to drive deafness from the kingdom, to keep up the royalty’s reputation and Treasury. Well, they agreed that the peasants were revoltingly disobedient and suggested that the advisors foreclose on the peasants to get fresh ones who would be more obedient. That didn’t work either, because the peasants were clever and covered their donkeys and other assets.
So the Board recommended that the Treasury hire a Wizard who was said to dislike dogs and unlikely to get emotionally involved. The wizard must discover at any costs why the favorite dogs refused to hear and obey the Royal commands as obediently as did the advisors. Of course, the wizard must prove his or her mettle by first testing only deaf dogs. Also, wizards perhaps from other shops must study the other dogs (very cheaply) to find a way to convince the peasants that the Royalty and Royalty Clubs (RCs) cared about the peasants and their dogs of all breeds. Somehow the advisors must discover a way to magically get rid of those unwanted [expletive deleted] deaf puppies that were bad for the Treasury and the Royal PR. So, they hired wizards whose titles included Academic titles, degrees, association affiliations and other awesome symbols of sagacity.
The First Enchantments - Tried and Failed
Immediately the advisors rounded up over 4,000 of the RCs favorite dogs, and sent them to the Bayou Shop to be tested with the latest most magical technologically advanced lightning, smoke and mirrors test, called the Magical-Bear. Ordinary peasants and their dog doctors were pleased by the Royal help.
Soon after, about the year 1996, see Table 1, the wizard bravely and apparently honestly reported to the whole world that 30 out of every hundred of the puppies born must be killed because they refused to hear and obey as well as did the advisors. In fact it seemed nearly 20 of each hundred heard with one ear, and somehow eight could learn to perceive mechanical vibrations in the air (sounds) without using their ears, and the rest heard in the same way as the advisors.
Well, that was unacceptable because the emotionally sensitive and ethical peasants just couldn’t stand the idea of killing sometimes almost 30 of every hundred puppies born to their dogs, just to please the Royalty and their advisors. Many of the unwanted pups were sent off on an underground railroad to rescue shelters, where many puppies were adopted into caring kind homes. Unfortunately, some of the unwanted puppies didn’t escape, were treated very badly, and became very unhappy.
So the advisors sent another nearly 400 dogs to be magical-Bear tested. Lo and behold, they also were deaf in the same ways. Then another 600 were rounded up and sent. To the Wizard’s and advisors’ dismay, the results were almost the same as those of the earlier years.
Even worse, the advisors learned that some of the peasants were killing unwanted deaf puppies without reporting it as they were supposed to be instructed by the advisors. In rare places, the puppies to be killed each year could reach nearly half (50 percent) those born in some families.
Table 1 Result of Magical-Bear Tests
Report Tested One-ear Two-ears
Year Dogs deaf % deaf % Total %
1996 4600 22 8 30
1999 5000 22 8 30
2010 5600 21.7 7.8 30
Of course by the year 2010 the Advisors were very nervous, but never fear, they were already at the same time trying three more enchantments to protect the Royal PR and the Treasury. The Advisors didn’t believe in “three-strikes and you’re Out.” – They were going for Victory in Four.
The Second Enchantment Failed to for-sure Find Worse Deafness Dogs’ Breeds
From some time before 1995, the advisors decided to try to confuse the peasants by proving that the other popular breeds of aristocratic Royalty Clubs (RC) heard just as poorly as the favorites of the Royal Treasury. The wizards, being honest fellows, reported to the whole world, Table 2 that the 400 ESetters they tested likewise refused to obey the regal rules, although they were only about half as disobedient as the favorites [16 instead of 30 in each hundred]. Well, maybe the wizards could get better numbers if with they had more ESetters to test; so they sent another 130. Oh Dear, not only didn’t the numbers of bad dogs go UP closer, the numbers went DOWN! SO, the wizards were paid (we suppose they were paid) to test another 170. O, Oh Dear; the scores of the ESetters went down even more!
Because the Advisors were fairly bright, to prevent their reputation among the peasants from getting worse, they decided to stop sending ESetters to the Wizards. Obviously there would soon be no Bad ESetters in the world at all if the Wizard continued to test more and more of them.
Table 2 Results of ESetters’ Magical-Bear Tests
Report Tested
Year Dogs Uni-deaf Bi-deaf Sum
1996 400 13 3 16
1999 530 12 2 14
2010 700 10 2 12
Well, with more stubbornness than good judgment, the advisors did likewise send off to the Wizards: Australians, ECockers, BullyTs, Catahowlers, JRusTs and a few others. Soon the advisors (we suppose), discovered that if they collected dogs of the other breeds by telling the peasants scary stories and promising that the dogs would be given free tests to detect violations of the RC laws, the fearful honest worried peasants would hustle in with their delinquents for test. Then the wizards could advise each peasant to euthanize (kill) every one of the “dangerously defective” dogs that did or would maybe someday violate the laws.
[1] <http://www.lsu.edu/deafness/genetics.htm> September 8, 2005, download Sep 2010
Figure 1 Better Hearing With More Bear Tests - an Illusion
So began the “grand fog illusion.” The Wizards, being as before honest chaps, naturally would report that all (100 percent) of the dogs tested of Breed X were deaf so long as they tested only one and it was deaf! [See the upper left ‘100’ corner of the graph in Figure 1] If the second dog tested could hear in the same way as an Advisor the average then, of course, was 50 percent Bad dogs, and as they hoped, much worse than the eight percent bi-ear deaf of the favorites.To their dismay, the more the wizards tested, the better almost all breeds of dogs could hear on average! Truly almost as clever as making gold out of lead! Sadly for the wizards that trick was unacceptable to the Royalty, advisors, and their overlords on the RC board, because the favorites refused to benefit from the elixir of repeating the tests until they too became nearly perfect.
Well, as we said, the Advisors were clever fellows. They saw from a chart that they could “fool the eye” of peasants by starting testing each breed with only (100 percent) deaf dogs, and then testing only a few more dogs of each breed, whose people they might invite to the Wizard’s by scaring them and promising to discover if their dogs were really deaf.
The Advisors’ crucial “trick” was to stop sending dogs to the Wizards while Breed X was on average still worse than the RC favorites. For example, look at the test scores of the CataHowlers. Testing stopped while they still appeared to be worse than the RC favorites.
So the Second “enchantment” seemed to score a Victory for PR and the Treasury (the advisors got to keep their jobs, we can suppose)! There were indeed officially two dog breeds that seemed to be worse than the Royalty’s favorites. The Royalty, advisors, the favorites, and the Wizards were no longer alone! But a tiny bit of Statistics applied by an unpaid wizard from far away showed that if perhaps 5,0000 of the Catahowlers were tested, their average deafness might decrease to about four in a thousand; far less than the nearly 80 per thousand of the royal favorites. That’s shown in Figure 1 where the scores of the royal favorites were far above all others in the tested population.
The Third Enchantment was to Create an Illusion that “All Dogs are Bad”
The Advisors by then had learned to never trust peasants who sooner or later uncovered the truth in spite of the tangles of sly PR. Thus we came to the Advisors’ “fool the peasants” trick. This one most children know as “All cats are black in the dark!” So the Advisors and the wizards tossed the names of nearly 100 dog breeds into a box, (as illustrated with 36 names in Table 3,) and proclaimed in that all had sinned and therefore suffered an inherited disease - genetic deafness; as also do other mammals such as cats, and even reptiles! The apprentices maybe had a bit of sport with the table that was visible to anyone who can spot nearly 15 kinds of terriers among the breeds, maybe inserted by apprentices tired of searching for exactly a full page of dog breed names; neither more nor less. Heroic teasing of a Wizard was recognized as a risky sport of apprentices and applauded by almost anyone who ever served as an apprentice wizard for nearly five years in nearly indentured servitude for advanced academic degree.
Table 3 Dog Breeds
Boston Terrier Rat Terrier Scottish Terrier Boxer Havanese
Sealyham Terrier BSpaniel Ibizan Hound Shropshire Terrier Bulldog
Icelandic Sheepdog Shih Tzû Bull Terrier Greyhound Soft Coated Wheaten Terrier
Canaan Dog Jack Terrier Siberian Husky Welsh Corgi Dalmatian
West Highland White Terrier Catahoula Kuvasz SpSpaniel Catalan Shepherd --
Labrador Retriever SuSpaniel CKC Spaniel American Staffordshire Terrier
Ti Spaniel Chihuahua American Hairless Terrier TibTerrier Boston Terrier
Yorkshire Terrier Toy Terrier
The Fourth Failed Enchantment: Promise Hope to Do the Impossible
At last, we came to the best chance to hide, conceal or remove deafness among the favorites – use genetic DNA[1] tests to “cleanse” bad-blood from the favorites. In 2004, it was hoped that genetically controlled selection for births could maybe reduce deafness to only two to six per ten thousand[2] (about 0.04 percent); as veterinarians reported for US dogs.
Being incurable optimists, for a time many people hoped that at last the biological Alchemists’ Stone had been found. For the wizards the genetic option was uncomfortable because the new magic was in the hands of competitor wizards, verily indeed many of them. So the chief Wizard’s funding slowly died away, leaving to him many titles, a grand list of illustrious Glories, and presumably income from lectures.
When all else Fails Plead for Mercy in the Court of Public Opinion
In fabled law courts, when the facts were at last crystal clear, the “defendants” – in this fable the deafness “hiders” – had a final chance to escape severe scolding, by throwing themselves on the mercy of the judges in the court of public opinion (the media – television, newspapers and the Web.) [3] So we, the peasants, ought to seriously (in the fable anyway) ask how much mercy was deserved? After all, the perpetrators – royalty, RCs, advisors and others - claimed than they were killing deaf puppies to protect the public, adults as well as children and hearing dogs, against horrors and crimes likely to be committed by deaf dogs. Some of the [4]misleading scare stories became enshrined as story-myths.
A Few Deaf Dog “Scare-Stories-Myths”
Story-Genetic deafness is a disease-defect, though deaf dogs probably lived with humans for millennia. Fact: Survival and co-evolution of domestic dogs living with humans, according to archeology and sculptures, etc. for nearly 10,000 years, and by 2010 seemingly lead to about two deaf per ten thousand (hearing dogs plus deaf dogs), Strain,2011.
Story-Children can’t live with Dogs. Fact: Some children can be startled, might bite, become aggressive, and sometimes are hard to train, so they often can’t live well in a home with any dog whether deaf or hearing. Babies and poorly socialized children who haven’t learned to treat dogs properly can injure unprotected dogs who are unfamiliar with children: Always Provide Adult Supervision.
Story-People who believe that Dogs are “Humans in Fur coats” find Deaf Dogs Incredibly Difficult to Train. Fact:Anyone who understand that dogs aren’t kids or adult humans in “fur coats” and seriously wants to train a dog, hearing or deaf, can almost always succeed. Dogs both hearing and deaf learn non-voice sign-signals easiest.
Story-Deaf Dogs Must have Special Owners. Fact: Owners of deaf dogs are as varied as their dogs. However, owners ought be enough special that they don’t mistake their dog for a cute weird furry human.
Story-Unilaterally (one-ear) genetically deaf dogs can be detected only by putting wires in their head, and those dogs unless neutered or killed will pass on their deafness genes: Fact:An observant person can usually decide by observing as a one-ear hearing dog looks in the wrong direction to find the maker of a sound. To get legal hearing certificates for breeds with known deafness (any breed might have a few deaf puppies) it is best to use certified facilities.
Story- Deaf Dogs Need Hearing Aids. Fact: Genetically deaf dogs have abilities to detect, understand and use mechanical vibrations (sound) by perhaps eight to nine biologics, more than used by most humans.
Story- Startled Deaf Dogs are always permanent fearful paranoids. Fact: Popular scare stories had it that a deaf dog is always anxious, fearful and almost instantly bites. A truly always-anxious fearful dog might likely starve to death from whirling about to discover what or who’s sneaking up on it. [See page about dog-whirling].
Final
As we approached the end of the Royal yellow brick road in 2010, we discovered that the worst of fates had befallen the heroic perhaps honestly and innocently intended efforts of the Royalty, RCs and advisors. Alas there was no longer hope of a magical way to hide, conceal or cure. The peasants like you and me had at last found out that the decades of hiding and concealment were a kind of pious “fraud” using Public Relations to conceal or excuse the annual slaughter of thousands of deaf innocents so that the sight of those puppies who were permitted to live could delight the eye and wallet of the Royalty, RCs, advisors and the henchpersons. After Walt Disney Studios romantically wrote the ending of the famous movies where 101 spotted puppies lived, skins of pretty puppies in the US were rarely or never intentionally used for purses, capes and leather-clothes. Each year instead, for decades, a few humans caused thousands of puppies to die for profit and pride.
[1] www.thedca.org/deaf1.html : “… Recent discoveries in the genetics … possibility of virtually eliminating it ...”
[2] See footnote #1
[3] There once was a story about a drunken chap who after killing his mother and father threw himself on the mercy of the court as an Orphan.
[4] “… deaf puppies should be euthanatized, since they make poor pets, are difficult to train, are prone to startle biting, frequently die from misadventure, and require excessive care…”
Well, as we said, the Advisors were clever fellows. They saw from a chart that they could “fool the eye” of peasants by starting testing each breed with only (100 percent) deaf dogs, and then testing only a few more dogs of each breed, whose people they might invite to the Wizard’s by scaring them and promising to discover if their dogs were really deaf.
The Advisors’ crucial “trick” was to stop sending dogs to the Wizards while Breed X was on average still worse than the RC favorites. For example, look at the test scores of the CataHowlers. Testing stopped while they still appeared to be worse than the RC favorites.
So the Second “enchantment” seemed to score a Victory for PR and the Treasury (the advisors got to keep their jobs, we can suppose)! There were indeed officially two dog breeds that seemed to be worse than the Royalty’s favorites. The Royalty, advisors, the favorites, and the Wizards were no longer alone! But a tiny bit of Statistics applied by an unpaid wizard from far away showed that if perhaps 5,0000 of the Catahowlers were tested, their average deafness might decrease to about four in a thousand; far less than the nearly 80 per thousand of the royal favorites. That’s shown in Figure 1 where the scores of the royal favorites were far above all others in the tested population.
The Third Enchantment was to Create an Illusion that “All Dogs are Bad”
The Advisors by then had learned to never trust peasants who sooner or later uncovered the truth in spite of the tangles of sly PR. Thus we came to the Advisors’ “fool the peasants” trick. This one most children know as “All cats are black in the dark!” So the Advisors and the wizards tossed the names of nearly 100 dog breeds into a box, (as illustrated with 36 names in Table 3,) and proclaimed in that all had sinned and therefore suffered an inherited disease - genetic deafness; as also do other mammals such as cats, and even reptiles! The apprentices maybe had a bit of sport with the table that was visible to anyone who can spot nearly 15 kinds of terriers among the breeds, maybe inserted by apprentices tired of searching for exactly a full page of dog breed names; neither more nor less. Heroic teasing of a Wizard was recognized as a risky sport of apprentices and applauded by almost anyone who ever served as an apprentice wizard for nearly five years in nearly indentured servitude for advanced academic degree.
Table 3 Dog Breeds
Boston Terrier Rat Terrier Scottish Terrier Boxer Havanese
Sealyham Terrier BSpaniel Ibizan Hound Shropshire Terrier Bulldog
Icelandic Sheepdog Shih Tzû Bull Terrier Greyhound Soft Coated Wheaten Terrier
Canaan Dog Jack Terrier Siberian Husky Welsh Corgi Dalmatian
West Highland White Terrier Catahoula Kuvasz SpSpaniel Catalan Shepherd --
Labrador Retriever SuSpaniel CKC Spaniel American Staffordshire Terrier
Ti Spaniel Chihuahua American Hairless Terrier TibTerrier Boston Terrier
Yorkshire Terrier Toy Terrier
The Fourth Failed Enchantment: Promise Hope to Do the Impossible
At last, we came to the best chance to hide, conceal or remove deafness among the favorites – use genetic DNA[1] tests to “cleanse” bad-blood from the favorites. In 2004, it was hoped that genetically controlled selection for births could maybe reduce deafness to only two to six per ten thousand[2] (about 0.04 percent); as veterinarians reported for US dogs.
Being incurable optimists, for a time many people hoped that at last the biological Alchemists’ Stone had been found. For the wizards the genetic option was uncomfortable because the new magic was in the hands of competitor wizards, verily indeed many of them. So the chief Wizard’s funding slowly died away, leaving to him many titles, a grand list of illustrious Glories, and presumably income from lectures.
When all else Fails Plead for Mercy in the Court of Public Opinion
In fabled law courts, when the facts were at last crystal clear, the “defendants” – in this fable the deafness “hiders” – had a final chance to escape severe scolding, by throwing themselves on the mercy of the judges in the court of public opinion (the media – television, newspapers and the Web.) [3] So we, the peasants, ought to seriously (in the fable anyway) ask how much mercy was deserved? After all, the perpetrators – royalty, RCs, advisors and others - claimed than they were killing deaf puppies to protect the public, adults as well as children and hearing dogs, against horrors and crimes likely to be committed by deaf dogs. Some of the [4]misleading scare stories became enshrined as story-myths.
A Few Deaf Dog “Scare-Stories-Myths”
Story-Genetic deafness is a disease-defect, though deaf dogs probably lived with humans for millennia. Fact: Survival and co-evolution of domestic dogs living with humans, according to archeology and sculptures, etc. for nearly 10,000 years, and by 2010 seemingly lead to about two deaf per ten thousand (hearing dogs plus deaf dogs), Strain,2011.
Story-Children can’t live with Dogs. Fact: Some children can be startled, might bite, become aggressive, and sometimes are hard to train, so they often can’t live well in a home with any dog whether deaf or hearing. Babies and poorly socialized children who haven’t learned to treat dogs properly can injure unprotected dogs who are unfamiliar with children: Always Provide Adult Supervision.
Story-People who believe that Dogs are “Humans in Fur coats” find Deaf Dogs Incredibly Difficult to Train. Fact:Anyone who understand that dogs aren’t kids or adult humans in “fur coats” and seriously wants to train a dog, hearing or deaf, can almost always succeed. Dogs both hearing and deaf learn non-voice sign-signals easiest.
Story-Deaf Dogs Must have Special Owners. Fact: Owners of deaf dogs are as varied as their dogs. However, owners ought be enough special that they don’t mistake their dog for a cute weird furry human.
Story-Unilaterally (one-ear) genetically deaf dogs can be detected only by putting wires in their head, and those dogs unless neutered or killed will pass on their deafness genes: Fact:An observant person can usually decide by observing as a one-ear hearing dog looks in the wrong direction to find the maker of a sound. To get legal hearing certificates for breeds with known deafness (any breed might have a few deaf puppies) it is best to use certified facilities.
Story- Deaf Dogs Need Hearing Aids. Fact: Genetically deaf dogs have abilities to detect, understand and use mechanical vibrations (sound) by perhaps eight to nine biologics, more than used by most humans.
Story- Startled Deaf Dogs are always permanent fearful paranoids. Fact: Popular scare stories had it that a deaf dog is always anxious, fearful and almost instantly bites. A truly always-anxious fearful dog might likely starve to death from whirling about to discover what or who’s sneaking up on it. [See page about dog-whirling].
Final
As we approached the end of the Royal yellow brick road in 2010, we discovered that the worst of fates had befallen the heroic perhaps honestly and innocently intended efforts of the Royalty, RCs and advisors. Alas there was no longer hope of a magical way to hide, conceal or cure. The peasants like you and me had at last found out that the decades of hiding and concealment were a kind of pious “fraud” using Public Relations to conceal or excuse the annual slaughter of thousands of deaf innocents so that the sight of those puppies who were permitted to live could delight the eye and wallet of the Royalty, RCs, advisors and the henchpersons. After Walt Disney Studios romantically wrote the ending of the famous movies where 101 spotted puppies lived, skins of pretty puppies in the US were rarely or never intentionally used for purses, capes and leather-clothes. Each year instead, for decades, a few humans caused thousands of puppies to die for profit and pride.
[1] www.thedca.org/deaf1.html : “… Recent discoveries in the genetics … possibility of virtually eliminating it ...”
[2] See footnote #1
[3] There once was a story about a drunken chap who after killing his mother and father threw himself on the mercy of the court as an Orphan.
[4] “… deaf puppies should be euthanatized, since they make poor pets, are difficult to train, are prone to startle biting, frequently die from misadventure, and require excessive care…”