Silent Servants...

Silent Servants...

... of the Used, Abused, and Utterly Screwed Up.

A Secular Franciscan looks at the world...
with a more jaundiced eye than ever...
and lots of ellipses for you to fill in the missing text...
(with thanks to Thomas S. Klise for the title)



Saturday, February 20, 2010

Anyone who has had one in the family

knows that dogs easily learn right from wrong, and it's more than just fear of retribution, they honestly feel badly about their wrong behaviour...

The Ethical Dog

"Looking for the roots of human morality in the animal kingdom? Focus on canines, who know how to play fair"
Zeussie, our last, lovely dog, who shuffled off a few years ago, was one of the types of dogs who had good control of her facial muscles. When she was happy she could smile (and did she ever smile, particularly for ice cream!), she also could show the most 'hang-dog' look when she knew she had done something wrong, and she could engage in the most distracting behaviour to try to distract us from finding out that she had done something wrong.


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