Wednesday, December 3, 2008

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Well for once I have something to blog about that's maybe okay for reading, but quite possibly not.
So I was thinking about my dogs today, as I do, and I was wondering about feeding. Say you've got Canned Dog Food X, and it's alright, but is pretty shit compared to a fat steak. Would it be better to feed your dog nothing but X for it's entire life, or would it be better to feed it X, but at randomly selected dates of the year, feed it a nice steak?
I think everyone would choose to feed the dog a steak every now and then, but the main problem I had was that I couldn't figure out if feeding my dog steak at random would get it's hopes up. My problem was that I was imagining myself as a dog, and I decided that if my owner randomly gave me steaks, I think I'd probably get my hopes up every time. Will steak be a regular thing from now on? I love steak.
This first occured to me when for whatever reason, we had barbecue-food at home, and there were lots of leftovers. I think they might've been from a barbecue. Snap. So we gave the dogs something like a big .. bone thing, and they took it away to the couches and chewed at it on the couches. My dogs do that, they're allowed on the couches. Then the night after, there were no more leftovers, so my parents reverted back to giving the dogs their normal daily feed of rice mixed with boiled chicken and vegetables. I'm not sure what to think about the fact that my dogs sometimes get nicer dinners than I do.
Everyone I've asked said that it'd be better to feed it a steak every now and then, which I suppose makes sense.
Also, I always try to be careful when I talk about animals. I try not to refer to them as 'its', like 'The dog was lying on the floor. Its head was resting on its paws.' I try to refer to the dog as either a he or a she. I'm not sure why. I know that in the previous paragraph I referred to the dog as an 'it', but .. yeah.
Sometimes when I'm thinking about animals, I feel like I can really empathise with them. Then I get stuck wondering about whether or not my animal-mind-simulated thoughts are accurate. Do animals really think like how I imagine them to? I always imagine animals to have much simpler feelings and thoughts than people, but I don't really know. Dogs seem pretty capable of a wide range of feelings and emotions. They've got all the basic ones, like happy, sad, angry, jealous, all that. I always think that dogs minds are much simpler than ours, but I can't really word why.

Anyway, I've lost my train of thought. Just something for you to think about, I suppose. In other news, I really wanna go see the Arctic Monkeys on their BDO sideshow, but I can't go unless I've got someone going with me. Naj McRodjington said he'd come and he's already going BDO which is the NEXT DAY, but I think my mum meant 'You can only go if you've someone to go with whose parents are driving them.' Problems! Perhaps we can sort something out, Mr Roj.

This blog sounds deep in my mind, but I bet I'm going to feel like an idiot when I post it.

I think I'll write another blog immediately after this one. Good logic.

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