my purpose: opposable thumbs and human centrism....

my humans laugh sometimes. this seems to happen a lot when the talk about me and 'opposable' thumbs, and how i don't have these. i googled 'dog with opposable thumb.' i haven't found any dogs that have grown any.

i did find a website that sells t-shirts for dogs with the saying, 'i'm only an opposable thumb away from world domination.' i'm not posting the url for you to buy that. in the first place, my guy human talks about getting paid for 'clicks' and i'm want to find out more about that; perhaps, if i could make some money, i could save up for some sheep. i long for sheep, but i digress... i'm not posting the url for that website because, well, frankly, they list a lot of different breeds, but they don't list 'shetland sheepdogs,' of which I am one...so, call it sour grapes....but mostly, i'm not posting the url to that website because i dislike the t-shirt saying for a bigger reason: HUMAN-CENTRISM....

i find humans very human-centric...they really seem to have difficulty seeing things from other creatures' perspectives. sometimes, i'm not even sure they realize i have a perspective... let's address this t-shirt saying....have they considered that an opposable thumb isn't the end all or be all of existence? have they considered that i have no desire for world domination? what would anyone do with world domination if they had it anyway? don't they see the benefit of living with a pack? sometimes, i feel a bit undervalued, not respected...

training humans takes a great deal of patience and understanding, i am coming to realize....

i guess, the point i'm making here is that i hope that this blog will enable me to connect with other creatures more: other dogs, cats, hamsters, geckos, mice, to name a few, and of course, other humans. i do love my humans. i think they understand that, that's one of the simpler things that they are finally getting....

gotta go, there's a strange noise coming from the front yard, if only i could get the humans to lower the windows, so i could see better...