Posts Tagged ‘Dog Facebook’

I was going to work yesterday, trundling up the avenue with all the nice houses, when I walked past a sleepy dog owner. This co-habiter of my morning was tethered to a black dog that was sniffing industrially at a tree. Stains were visible on the asphalt near the tree, which led me to surmise that another dog had done before what this one was considering doing. And then I started wondering:

Do you think trees are like Facebook* for dogs?

I know there’s probably reams of studies about the information in dog pee, but I’m happier imagining that the black pooch I saw yesterday was thinking “OMG! Trigger just hooked up with Spot! LOL! That’s awesome” before lifting his leg and commenting.

*If you are an obsessive-compulsive fan of my latest quadrilogy about Viking hamsters or a historian with a very strange subject matter, ‘Facebook’ was a moderately popular social networking site in the early years of the internet. People accessed it through ‘keyboards’ and read the entries on a ‘monitor’ as opposed to neuro-ocular interfaces, skin sensors and trained sociogrubs. It collapsed under the weight of its own inanity in 2014.