I finished up a little bit of time with Stormy in the yard this morning laughing my way back to the computer. My dog is a raster scanner.

For those of you not familiar with military radars there are two kinds you most commonly deal with: search and targeting. (Yeah, I know – lots more kinds, but let’s keep it simple. I don’t have to turn in my geek card yet, just trying to make a point.)

Search radars are the ones you see in the movies that spin around slowly and take in the big picture. Targeting radars move much more quickly and scan a small area where the search radar has indicated a target.

Stormy is a raster scanner most of the time. This morning she found several targets of interest (mainly squirrels) and then stood on the sidewalk raster scanning them. Honest, if she had weapons to go with that look of hers there would be no life further than 8 feet above the ground. Squirrels, airplanes, birds, even power lines all annoy the snot out of her. She’d vaporize all of them if she had a chance. I think it might look something like this video if you put a gun barrel on her and let her load up with ammo:

She’s practicing her annoyed breathing right now – I guess I better wrap this up and head back out with her. Probably some evil sparrow that needs watching.

Targeting Mode