#Agent Thoth's #Personal Log: Day 1182

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Agent Thoth discusses more of the trials and tribulations associated with living with hominids. Incidentally, if you've missed Agent Thoth's earlier entries, you can find them here: Thoth's Journal

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Agent Thoth's Personal Log

Day Eleven-Hundred-Eighty-Two:

My progress, thus far, with my experiment in altering my hominid-servant's behavior is limited but promising. I began by refusing to drink for an entire day, but cried loudly while staring at the bowl of liquid H2O that my hominid-servant leaves out for my consumption, whenever she was close enough to both see and hear me. This resulted in increasing concern on her part throughout the day, until she finally attempted to force me to swallow liquid H2O by using a syringe to deliver it to the back of my throat.

I successfully resisted these attempts by expectorating the liquid H2O into my hominid-servant’s face and twisting free of her grasp. She was not pleased with me, but did alter her efforts to induce me to drink by placing several different bowls containing liquid H2O within easy reach of my location. I made a rather dramatic show of examining each one, and then chose the one with the most extreme dimensions ̶ the smallest one ̶ to drink from. My thought process in this was that it would require the most effort on her part to accommodate my choice.

To start, the smaller the vessel, the more frequently it will need to be filled. Which, in turn, will mean she will need to monitor the contents closely to ensure that it does not become empty. Additionally, since the bowl is of a distinct size, my selection required that my hominid-servant take pains to locate a sufficient number of bowls of the requisite diameter to ensure that a sufficient amount of liquid H2O is available at all times.

As I stated, thus far, the results yielded from this experiment have been promising. My hominid-servant has, indeed, been rather diligent in maintaining the level of H2O in the proffered bowls, and she did, in fact, spend an extended period of time locating several smaller vessels in which to provide said liquid.  Naturally, it is too early to know if this change in behavior will be lasting, never mind if it will be possible to expand it to other things besides the provisioning of liquid H2O. However, I am most pleased, so far, and will continue to report additional findings.

Ah-ha! Success, at last! ;-) You may have noticed that Agent Thoth has a new look. I hope you like his new picture as much as I do, but I'd love to hear your thoughts, either way. Feel free to let me know what you think in the comments. ;-) Happy reading, everyone!