Cal.e.'s Korner

C.: Hey, d.c., may I come in?

d.: sure, come on in. I'm just working on some editing of a script.

C.: Oh, what's it called?

d.: I haven't named it yet, or decided what it's about, or who the protagonist is...anyway, come on in and we'll write today's Cal.E's Korner

C.: Okay. I see that you put the video of Buddy Bones flying to his final destination. Has it been a year since he left this planet?

d.: No, actually, it’s been around fourteen months. I suppose that, when T. Puppy Katt came along, we didn’t really pay much attention to how long Buddy Bones had been gone. I just put that video up at the beginning of the blog so he won’t be forgotten.

C.: Oh, yes. Today is a special day for T. Puppy. She’s two today, so she can no longer be called a puppy, can she? Aren’t large dogs considered to be adults on their second birthday?

d.: Yes and no. While I believe that she’s reached her adult height and weight, she still acts like a puppy.

C.: So, in a way, she’s like a human?

d.: How so?

C.: Well, y’alls laws in this country say that humans are adults on their eighteenth birthday. Then, they can do important stuff, like voting. However, research shows that the human brain doesn’t fully mature until age twenty-five. That makes for seven years that a human can make adult decisions with a teenager’s mentatlity.

c.: True, and most of us do make some bad decisions during that time frame. However, much like going away to college, those decisions help us grow and mature, and, hopefully, keep us from making bad decisions later in life, when they would be more detrimental  because we’d have less time to recover.

C.: So, did Buddy Bones ever act like a mature adult?

d.: he did not. Buddy Bones was babied from the time we adopted him, and he ate it up. He was smart enough to to realize that, as long as he acted like a puppy, he would be treated like one. Of course,, Buddy was on the small side of a medium-sized dog, so that helped him be thought of as a puppy longer.

C.: Well, did T. Puppy act mature as soon as she woke up this morning?

d.: She did not, and I’m glad. When I think of a mature dog, I think of a lazy dog lying in the sun and not doing much else. All dogs like to get their vitamin D fix from the sun, but it’s unneeded of the dog never does anything else.

C.: Like chase cats and make them miserable?

d.: Among other things. My point is that dogs were domesticated because they are very social animals and make good companions. That’s why they’re used as therapy dogs for soldiers with PTSD and emotional support. animals. Some breeds  of dogs are also good at working, because they have so much energy. If you don’t give a Border Collie, German shepherd or a Belgian Malinois a job, s/he will find something to do, and it won’t be something that you want him or her to do.

C.: Cats could do that, if we wanted to.

d.: you just made my point for me. Cats actually have more acute senses than dogs, but are…less cooperative. However, some are used for such things as smelling out cancer, and, in some sad cases, death. Some cats can actually tell when someone is going to die soon.

C.: d.c., do you think that I would be a good emotional support animal for someone who needs one?

d.: ….That’s all the time we have for today, folks. Please join us tomorrow for another episode of Cal.e.’s Korner.