You're right, it was McConnell.
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'Behave!' is rather better than Neptune - or at least, about a decade more recent.
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when I was young my mother ran a DoE rehab centre for birds of prey. I vividly remember the day one of the young kestrels destroyed my Roget's Thesaurus on the pages about transport and horses... I was horse-mad at the time and not paying attention to training the birds. It did get me focused again
and yes, I'd have thought a puppy pen or a baby gate so that the pup can be confined to one room would be good.
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