Dogs are perfect lifeforms.

I must begin by explaining two things:

a) I just got my fill of ego-enhancement from writing a new Post at my blog (the Wakefield Doctrine) and the photo of Ginger was meant to head up that Post;
2) I seem to be getting hooked on the very iffy proposition (that) all these 'vanity-publishing-for-the-21st-Century' blogsites are based upon, i.e. that someone out there will read these words and respond or react. This is almost always followed by the 'inductive fallacy' inherent in the proposition that becuase a person with access computer and therefore to publishing blogs to be read by an unknown number of Readers, is (somehow) on a par (to some degree) with professional writers.

The topic of this Hub is dogs (...am dogs? are dogs?) and why it is that they are perfect lifeforms. Regular Readers of these Hubs no doubt will have noticed that in all other Hubs, I have used photos of my first dog Ola.
She was perfect.

The video (below) is the 'reason' for this hub. It is a slideshow (with music) that was created to commemorate the death of our last dog, Bella. Nice job illustrating the relationship that (can) exist between people and dogs.

Why do I believe that dogs are the perfect lifeforms? One word: "unconditional love"!
While some may accuse me of a certain lack of emotional sophistication, every day of her life, I knew that Ola would be glad to see me when I returned home. Throughout her life Ola, enjoyed everything we did in our family (which amounted to a 3 member 'pack'). Ola never changed or 'grew-up' as children do, coming to think that she preferred being with 'her own friends', she never felt we 'did not understand her', she simply enjoyed our life together. And it was not for a lack of intelligence on Ola's part. I would venture to say that most dogs, especially those raised with a close relationship to a human family, have a level of intelligence that would equate with a 3 to 5 year human child. (That is not quite fair to either, a dog has a more developed sense of responsibility than does a human (of that age) but as to self-awareness and problem solving, they way up there.)

The Wakefield Doctrine says that clarks are the best people to have and raise a dog for a family situation and scotts make the best dog trainers (police and guard dogs) and rogers like cats. The fact that these statements are all true tells you everything about the three personality types.

clarks are able to relate to anything simply because they are not really a part of any context (social, environmental, academic, whatever),
scotts are great trainers 'cause they can directly relate to dogs, as dogs are pack animals. It is no accident that dogs make very useful analogs for illustrating the scottian personality traits
rogers, are not big fan of dogs simply because there is a risk that people will sometimes pay more attention to the dog and (the dog as a scott) will usually establish dominance on the roger, cats don't give a shit

There you have it. The truth about dogs. The truth about people. The Wakefield Doctrine.