Dog Owners: 1 Cat Owners: 0

How many people will I upset with this post title??? Don't know... prove me wrong.

I like cats, but after watching NOVA's "Dogs Decoded", I have to remember why I love my doggies. I mean, I know I'm only a LITTLE biased, but when I was done watching the program, I got the warm fuzzies inside and just wanted to hug my own little one!

The show is freakishly amazing and talks about all the new research that is being done with dogs. People are starting to ask: "How smart ARE dogs?" The answers they are finding are rather spectacular.

For example, there are some dogs in the world that function on a level that is above the intelligence of a two-year-old human. I know that doesn't SEEM like much, but there was a border collie named Betty who could identify over 100 separate objects AND when you showed her a drawing of a particular object and told her to fetch it, she brought back that exact object. That's fairly clever for an animal, I must say.

Not to mention, the chimpanzee that was outsmarted by a dog. :)

It's mostly about the way a dog PAYS ATTENTION to what people are doing/saying. They read our facial expressions and body expressions better than any creature. It's kind of amazing the way everything is... particularly with the concepts of facial expressions and how the right side of our face shows our true emotions. When tested on dogs, scientists realize that when dogs look at people, their eyes always turn to the right side of our face. Now, how did they figure that out!!!???

Overall, the show was freaking amazing and reminds me of the connection that we have with the canine world... and how they have changed from wild wolves!

Check it out!!!!!

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/nova/nature/dogs-decoded.html

BTW it's on the Instant Watch on Netflix for you Netflix people!!

Hellooooo November

November is starting... that's amazing. If you would have told me a week ago that November was almost here, I would have said something like: "But it's not even Halloween yet!"

Funny, huh, how time really does fly by without you even realizing it? I'm not saying I feel old... and I'm not saying that there aren't times when time seems to be moving so slowly that I want to poke my eyes out. It happens all the time. It's the moments when you look at your calendar and realize that those boring moments were just moments within the week... that's when you realize... "Holy Cripes! The time HAS flown by so very quickly"

And, although I have turned another year older in the past month, I don't really feel much older. I still live my life every day as I always have... wishing for something, or someone, to come and make my life change, going to work, sleeping...

That's when it hit me... I'm ALWAYS waiting for SOMETHING or SOMEONE to make my life happen. Isn't that the weirdest thing to realize? That you really are just living your life day to day in hopes that fate will come in and do its duty when, in reality, you are the one who creates your fate. I'm wondering why it took me this long to realize this. I constantly tell myself that I'm doing something, making things happen... but when I sit down and think about it, everything I do has a tendency to depend on someone else. NOW, this is true for anything... there is always a small part of the action that you do that depends on the actions of someone else, but, I'm talking about seriously acting in the way that makes the other person ALMOST entirely responsible.

I'm not TOTALLY like this... I work hard and put my name out there as much as anyone can... but I find that there is still that part of me that believes that I am a diamond in the rough just waiting to be found...

Ridiculous, huh?

I mean, it's a nice thought, but who, other than Aladdin, is this?

So... I've realized that, like everyone else, I have to remember that I can't just work half-way... in a world like today, you REALLY have to sell yourself, put yourself out there... I'm not just talking about jobs either, I'm talking about everything.

This should be interesting.

On another note, I have a new obsession. Full-Metal Alchemist is on Netflix instant watch... oh my god, I have no life right now. :)

Heehee!!!

Meanwhile, check out Jack and I for Halloween!!! I was a kitty this year, but when I found out that Jack could be a submarine, I was thinking a Beatles theme for next year... who's with me????