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We had two dogs that used to steal each other's stash. Buster would scrape the carpet some place and carefully place his treat here. Then he'd carefully push imaginary dirt from all around the treat to cover it. He could do this for ten minutes solid until he was completely satisfied it was covered. Then he'd lay down beside it very happy with himself and his treat covered in invisible soil. Morgan would walk in and scoff it with Buster looking utterly astonished at Morgan's ability to find the treat.

Another time Morgan ( who had a withered front leg) carefully and painstakingly buried a treat in a pile of soil in the yard. Buster was lying in the garden watching him. Morgan would turn round sometimes to see if Buster was watching and Buster would be looking anywhere but near the bone or Morgan. Morgan dug deep with his withered paw and carefully backfield the hole with his snout while spot checking an apparently uninterested Buster. Satisfied with his job Morgan retired to the bed leaving Buster to get the bone. Buster was a bastard of a dog.

Sorry to jump your post addressed to David nutt but are you talking about ibogaine? From a personal view point it certainly crammed a whole load of emotional development into one off experiment for me. Loving this post and the questions and answer so far though! How refreshing!

No but it is a Hadith, ie what Mohammed says and what Mohammed does is holy and a Hadith so as Mohammed is most perfect and holy it is to be emulated. Also to say that her age at time of marriage was contentious is a little fudging of the facts that she was certainly aged between 5 and 7 at the time of the marriage and at this age she washed the semen of Mohammed from her clothes prior to the marriage being consummated at a contentious age of 9

Thank you. I meet psychiatrists a lot in my job but none really as committed as you are to the patient helping/ healing. It's nice to know there are some humane ones.

Given that a lot of the patients you see will have problems rooted in their childhood, what would you say is the most important factor in bringing up children to be healthy psychologically? Nobody's perfect as parents but what might we be doing that we don't recognise might impact on them negatively as adults