You cannot teach a dog to fly She never will get off the ground He'll whine and whimper and try and try But dogs, like us, are all earthbound
- from Dogs by Ima Ginary
Some humans loves dogs and hate other humans. Dogs, meanwhile, are more practical. Dogs know the value of a human who feeds you. If you're a dog, no other creature will feed you. Only a human will do it. And, if they ever stop feeding you, you can just eat them and find another human to feed you. Humans are suckers for dogs, some more than others. I once knew an old, burnt-out hippie who sold used books for a living. The guy barely had a dollar to his name. He lived in a dilapidated house in the country and drove a rattle-trap van. He could hardly afford to feed himself. But, he took in every stray dog he found. He had dozens of them. He spent every rare dime he acquired to feed and care for them. He would often lament, over a bummed cup of coffee, the futility of his struggle to care for all of his beloved animal friends. Some of them would get sick and die because he couldn't afford veterinary care or medicine for them. They would breed and breed and breed and the pack would grow and grow and grow. Had they been more compassionate, the dogs would have eaten him and put him out of his misery, but they weren't fools. Where were they going to find another sucker like him out there in the middle of nowhere? A poor provider is better than none at all. Besides, there was hardly a scrap of meat on the scrawny old flower child, with his long grey hair and his scraggly sideburns and an extra heart where his brain should have been.
Hello, friends. How are you?
Later. Love.
