Bloggin' ain't easy, but it's neccessary...

...So I make you laugh like Curly, Moe and Larry.

That's definitely not true but it was the only rhyme I could think of that made any sense at all. Plus, to be a good rapper you have to be hyperbolically boastful so maybe that's the way to go.

Anyway I was walking my brother's dog last night and it suddenly occurred to me that "Man's Best Friend" is really a goodie-two-shoes. Think about it, they follow you wherever you go, do whatever you say, and never reject or question you. No wonder they called kids "Teacher's Pets" in school. The funny thing is that when I was a kid I hated brown-nosers, but I have always loved dogs. It made me wonder if maybe they are not as similar as I thought, but then I suddenly realized the discrepancy: I didn't like apple-polishers when I was a kid because they were my peers and we were all competing for the teacher's attention. With a dog, it's like I'm the teacher and it is the flip side of the coin because the pet is trying to get attention from me.

Not only does this explain why my feelings are different in the two situations, but if you think about it, it also explians why cats don't like dogs. Cats are the jocks and rebels in the classroom of pet ownership, so their natural instinct is to resent the well-behaved, attention getting dogs, and occasionally pummel an unsuspecting canine after gym class with a lighting-quick flash of claws and sandpaper toungue.