Wire-haired fox terrier problems (2)

This is the second of an occasional series of short posts dealing with life problems affecting (but surely not unique to) my own breed.

• Have you ever aspired to overtake a high speed train?
• Are you convinced you really could bring down a Monarch of the Glen?
• Winged flight - do you feel our feathered friends have an unfair advantage?

Todays today's topic is:

Excess of Ambition versus Realistic Goals…

I could run faster than that train if only I were allowed. 

The scent of a deer! I'm after it. Of course my legs are long enough...

One day I'll grow wings...

Writers more illustrious than myself have addressed this issue, and their words will, I hope, suffice.


William Shakespeare (Macbeth)
I have no spur
To prick the sides of my intent, but only
Vaulting ambition, which o'erleaps itself,
And falls on th'other. . . .

Ah, but a man's dog's reach should exceed his grasp, or what's a heaven for? 

ROBERT BROWNING, "Andrea del Sarto"