We are still, hear!

South of Sanity will be moving over to Wordpress by the end of the year. New layout, new art.
On to some stuff:

Animals and us. We and them. Humans have been on the planet for a while now, 6,000 years, according to the Bible or 150,000 years ago for the egg heads. We climbed down from the trees and started hitting each other with increasingly larger sticks. We must act now my brothers and sisters! The dolphins are coming. With their large brains they are able to do much more than the normal aquatic animal. Case in point Richard Black, BBC News Environment correspondent reports on what may be a form of "culture" among a group of dolphins.

"A wild dolphin is apparently teaching other members of her group to walk on their tails, a behaviour usually seen only after training in captivity."

Culture is defined as the shared patterns of behaviors and interactions, cognitive constructs, and affective understanding that are learned through a process of socialization. These shared patterns identify the members of a culture group while also distinguishing those of another group.

So, the animals are learning...i wonder how long it will take before their sticks are bigger than ours!

And just in case you thought dogs mouths are cleaner than humans...think of it this way.
Which would you lick? My kitchen garbage or my teen aged sons trash can. One of them is cleaner but they are both full of germs.

Actually this little bit of silliness goes on all the time...and there are many reasons why.

Scientists have found that a humans are more at risk of acquiring an illness if they come in oral contact with another human, and the same goes for dogs whose mouths come in contact with other canine mouths. In other words...Although the mouth of a typical dog is full of bacteria, it's 'species specific.' So, if a dog were to lick a person, most of the germs wouldn't transfer. 'Bottom line -- you're more likely to get a serious illness from kissing a person than kissing a dog.'

But, and this is a big one, i observe the behavior of my dog AND SHE LICKS HER ASS ALL DAY.

Among other things she has had in her mouth...

• dead possums
• rotting trash
• the shit the neighborhood dogs leave in our lawn
• my nephews vomit
• my vomit
• her own vomit
  
• a huge worm that i found after Hurricane Dolly
• grass
• the squirrel that was rotting in the street
• and the egg i tossed out cause it had a crack in it...

oh yeah, she also likes to lick feet.