Wow, I never really thought of that with my dog. It's a good point for sure. That shirt though.... Wow. I won't lie, I busted up laughing when I saw it, but I also don't say that word anymore. My wife is a mental health professional and I think she hates that word almost as much as the n word. I think part of it just has to do with the fact that it was such a blanket term back then and we know better now. It probably doesn't help that most people use it in a derogatory way versus the actual meaning of "inhibited" or whatever. Also, very true about the dinosaurs. If they were so on top of things they probably wouldn't have died right?
we did use it a lot in our playground vocab back in the 80's. I still use it every now and then but only in reference to myself or a very close friend. You have to be careful with that one, I recognize that.
I think that if you were dying that planning having the dog around would be tough especially since I don't really see my life ending in some sort of gradual "come here Nadi" sort of way. It would be me getting hit by a bus or something and well, we can't really plan for that now can we?
one only need to hear the story of Hachi to know that dogs really are confused when their master isn't around all of a sudden.
That is a good point. I have a feeling many of us aren't going to have the luxury of making all the necessary plans when it is our time to go.