Today’s blog is meant to be fun and to get folks thinking.
Those who follow along are keenly aware that I’m a big animal lover. Always have been. Just the way I’m wired. And I think that’s a good thing.
As an animal lover, I’ve always been prone to assign voices to animals I come in contact with. You know, I talk for them. Give voice to “their” thoughts. Or rather the thoughts I believe they’re having due to the expressions on their faces or the way they behave.
Now I’m sure some of you are shaking your heads, wondering what’s wrong with me. And I’m completely fine with that. I embrace being different. But I’ll bet there are just as many reading this or who you’ll share this with others who are nodding their heads, saying, “Yeah, I do that, too. Who doesn’t?”
Well, now that we’ve established that we’re all a little crazy, in a healthy way, let’s take things a step further. Those of you who have children are well aware that the quickest way to learn something about another is to hang out with their kids for a bit. Children have the ability to spill all the dirt on a family in ten minutes or less. I swear it’s some kind of gift they have and a curse on all us parents.
For example, does daddy walk around the house naked? Jr. will be sure to spill the beans. Does mommy buy premade meals and try to pass them off as homemade? The kid will surely divulge your “secret.” Do the bedrooms in the house look like a tornado touched down, while the rest of the house is neat and orderly? Or do closets closely resemble archeological digs with things crammed into manmade strata, the door barely able to latch shut, while other parts of the house, the ones company sees, give the appearance that the homeowner is organized? Any of these sound familiar? Good, then you’ll love what’s coming next.
Since we’ve established that I talk for my animals, giving their thoughts voice, and have uncovered that some of the rest of you join me in this activity, let’s dig a bit deeper. Keeping in mind how a child will spill all family secrets in ten minutes or less, here’s an equally disturbing thought. Actually, it may be even more unsettling. Here we go.
If your dog could talk and was mad at you, what would he say?
Just about now, many of you probably have an endless stream of thoughts parading through your heads of all the things your furry four-legged friends have witnessed—that you let them witness—confident that they could never tell. But what if they could? Holy crap, could you imagine all the dirt they could dish up on us? I mean think of it. What has Fido seen? Heard? Smelled? Tasted? Touched? (Okay, I’m strictly going with the five senses here. Whatever you opt to plug into this is entirely up to you.)
