DOG-O-RAMA

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Had a fun time today at dog park. Learned that there is a GNC vitamin store that has a section for dogs. They figured out which human vitamins when cut for the appropriate dog weight would allow people to buy cheaper supplements for our dogs. The GNC is at Addison near California (in the shopping mall with Target on Addison). Also, a GNC on Wabash and Chicago...same owners: Wayne and Jennifer and min-pin mix named Gretl.



I had an interesting discussion about is Tom Cruise gay??? My sister-in-law used to babysit for him in the next town from where I grew up. Richard Gere went to high school with me. I was cool, he was a dork, now we are both cool. I think they put something in the water for the men. But, Rod Serling, too, was from the area...those long upstate NY winters....that's where "The Wizard of Oz" was written. Something in the water.....me thinks it is true.



Saw a great collie/sheperd mix named Guiness, because when he was a pup his tummy looked just like a freshly poured Guiness. But, this dog has a tail like a cross between a feather duster and a plume....and it was always wagging. He was King of the pool...and he protected his territory.



The other day, I called Promise a he, rather than she, as she is in fact. But, Maureen was telling me that Promise does not have issues with gender identity. Most dogs I have discerned do not much care about all of that stuff. They hump from front to back, fron back to front, they do 69, they have no need to get a room and do not care if anyone calls them gay. I wish I could be so unself-conscious. They just go about, going about...tis a gift to be simple...that's why people have shrinks...it is like having an urban extended family grandmother whom you can go to and let down your hair and vent. But, in our urban life, we need to pay someone for this since we no longer have families to fulfill that function. Don't you wish your grandmother were still around to visit and have her make cookies for you? Adult life usually does not provide us with a grandma and her ubiquitous cookies. I long for the days of ubiquitous cookies. Today I was speaking with someone at dp who shared that since her mother had passed away of cancer about 10 years prior that many people kept coming into her life with a parent dying of cancer. The universe speaks and is interconnected on a molecular level. I believe that humans and dogs and all living creatures carry with them the DNA from everyone of their ancestors.

I think there are regularly the same people at dog park because we have a similar need to connect in a way that is free form and not necessarily social as in having a dinner party. I was thinking about writing a book many years ago. Well, that may not happen, but I will have a blog. I was told today at dp by a human who works for a magazine that they tell people who want to write and publish, to start a blog. After that one needs to develop a following. So, if you think this is worth following, please forward it onto other dog freaks and freaks of wanting to know how and why people tick. I am not Julia Childs or Julie for that matter and my idea of cooking is micro wave oriented. So, find what you like about this and make it your own.

That's all she wrote. Roe and Jordan