Non Sequitur by Wiley Miller for December 10, 2013

“See ya again in a day or two.”

Hey, I know that dog… I walk him every day… He has to find just the ‘right’ place… OY.

If you want to get home tonight, you’d better offer him yourpants leg.

I think it’s unlikely that Fido will be “going” up against a cactus. You’ve got a long way to go, mate!

Mine needs a fireplug, or the right rear tire on a Prius.

“Will you go, Lassie, go?!?”

Mine seem happy just to hit something….

Sorry to introduce controversy into this, but I’d just stick with a nice cat……..

sometimes we go for a walk, sometimes we go for a sniff.

He started from home in Flagstaff, and found himself in Yuma.

Hopefully before he dies of old age…..he is deserting his master….

Is this the canine version of marking territory?

I wonder if the skeleton in the background is an old dog that never found the right spot…

Good thing he has Verizon coverage, otherwise he would end up having to use the phone booth in the middle of nowhere! (is it still out there?)

I’ve often wondered about that. I had a dog who would go into the back yard and sniff and sniff and sniff until he found just the right spot. Every blade of grass looked the same to me but apparently one little patch was better than all the others. It was his own yard, no other animal had access so what quality could he have been looking for that made that spot better than any other? Does anyone out there understand that aspect of animal behavior?

This really made me smile – and ever grateful for our invisible fence!

“Can you hear me now?”

When we take our dog for a walk, he sniffs where other dogs have gone. We call it “pee-mail.” When he goes and turns to sniff his own, we call it spell checking.

I don’t know the bladder capacity of a dog. It must be in the neighborhood of a moderately-sized supertanker. Even allowing for a few sprinkles per leg lift, it still takes a lot of urine to mark every vertical surface along a 3 mile route.

Hikers can’t crap in the southwest desert, even if they bury it, due to the fragile ecosystem. They have to pack it out in “wag bags.”

You don’t have to have a German heritage to expect kids and dogs to behave.

I have a wonderful dog who generally stays to one area for that business…..it’s strays that cross the property off the leash that get me! Oh! one more thing….who pays the “roaming” fees on his cell phone?….I’m sure it isn’t that dog!

Dogs are olfactory optimists, always moving on to something new and even better!

That’s why I have a backyard.

milania, my two cats prefer to do their business outside, even in the winter…They will do it inside if they have to…

Friend’s dog is like that.