#Agent Thoth's #Personal Log: Day 1187

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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-Seven:

My first attempt at encouraging my hominid-servant to pay more attention to my actions has been a dismal failure. In my continuing effort to influence my hominid-servant’s behavior, I have been attempting to adapt the behavior modification technique I successfully used to cause her to change the vessels in which she offers me liquid H2O. The strategy did not work with food, but I had thought it might be successful with regards to convenient perches from which to observe the events that occur outside the portals in the walls of my domicile.

My efforts focused on gaining my hominid-servant’s attention, and then building in her a desire to cause me to alter my behavior. Therefore, I deployed the C.L.A.W.S. and utilized them as a climbing apparatus with which to scale the wall of my domicile. It seemed to me that this would, in turn, cause my hominid-servant to place a more convenient perch near the portal, so as to deter me from damaging the wall with the C.L.A.W.S.

The tactic was successful in that it provoked a response from my hominid-servant; however, the response was not at all what I would have wished. Instead of providing the desired perch, she attacked me with a dispenser of liquid H2O, and not in a convenient container for drinking. She saturated me with the vile substance, and then chased me around my domicile while vocalizing at me at an excessive decibel level.

I will have to rethink this technique and determine if I can find a way to use it to influence my hominid-servant towards desired behaviors and away from undesired behaviors, and not just provoke a random change in behavior that is not at all useful to me. As always, I will report back on any further developments.

Hominids are so difficult to properly train! ;-) 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!