You know that Far Side cartoon, where Fido is trying to lure the cat into a clothes dryer with a sign reading "cat fud this way" ? Well, we may think that's funny because the dog appears so stupid. But really we are stupid to laugh at it. The dog (1) has no sense of cruelty, like we do; and (2) communicates about food with a sense of smell. If we attempted to put something together like that sign, only in the smell medium, we would be far outclassed by Fido, who is far more oder-iterate than we could hope to be. This cartoon captures the sorry tail end state of our relationship with dogs, and it is a sad one.
We have had dogs in our lives since the dawn of reason, and we probably owe our intellectual capacity to them.
Just sayin'
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