The representation of dogs is woefully lacking. I was reading the list of \u2018film and television personalities\u2019 in the Penguin Book of facts. Where was Lassie? Where was Beethoven? (the dog not the composer.) Where oh where was Snoopy? I feel the need to write a letter of complaint to the publishers. How can these people be so narrow minded? I wouldn\u2019t even have objected to finding Garfield, Tom and Jerry or even Mickey Mouse. Animals are being overlooked by the short sighted people who compile these books. I\u2019m guessing it\u2019s really a \u2018four-legist\u2019 thing. Obviously being published by Penguin, they have two legs and humans have two legs, so they are simply excluding from their lists all those animals with four legs. I suppose I didn\u2019t actually spot any famous film or television penguins on the list, so I may be exaggerating the logic they have applied.<\/p>\n
I\u2019m actually thinking that some of my ramblings come of a dog having too much time on his paws. That\u2019s the problem when you\u2019re in kennels, only out to exercise a couple of times a day and for the rest of the time left to watch the clouds scudding across the sky and into obscurity. It doesn\u2019t really help to have the radio playing all day either. It\u2019s all very well the people here thinking that we\u2019ll find it soothing, but it isn\u2019t tuned to any of my preferred stations. I\u2019m more used to listening to talking books than music, although to be honest I have found some of the thrillers a bit scary, so being on my own in here I\u2019m probably glad I haven\u2019t got to listen to those. John Grisham books aren\u2019t too bad most of the time, but after a while I get confused on which book we\u2019re on and I think they have combined with the last one, which can produce some far more spooky results in my head.<\/p>\n
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