On the internet message board site Reddit.com there is a meme--a phrase or picture or otherwise which is used over and over and over again in different contexts--that does "[blank] ALL THE [blank]".
So I decided, after walking my dog today, that a post using this meme was appropriate. Maddie is a sniffer, like most dogs, but she is a selfish sniffer. I let her play with one of the neighborhood dogs today and she was all too eager to get some sensual butt-sniffing action in. What can I say? She is starved from any canine contact at home where she does nothing but lay on the couch we have provided for her. But I digress...
So to the selfish part--the gist of this post. She ran up to the terrier and immediately initiated her olfactory operation, but when her little friend tried sniffing her underside Maddie would do nothing less than evade. Overprotective? Insecure? Afraid her jewels are on trial for inadequacy?
I have taken Psychology in my college career so far which only fuels my curiosity. Let me tell you--dogs are easy to understand, and dogs are near impossible to understand. They have easier-to-understand basic drives and behaviors and a very basic vocabulary (at least in humanspeak) but when you really get down to it you realize that they just don't act like you think they do. Psychology does that to you, however; just when you think you figured out everything you need to know about people and the world around us it bites (sniffs) you in the ass and tells you how very wrong you are.
Kind of like my dog. She'll nibble when you aren't complying with her rules. Or whine. Or babble in her own language...but that's a concept for another post.
Happy New Years!
~intelligence
