Well I\u2019m pleased to say we had a very successful party conference yesterday. I invited one or two of the other dogs in to be the audience and whilst the German Shepherd did snore at one or two inopportune moments, the collie seemed genuine in her enthusiastic response.<\/p>\n
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The main conclusions of the debates were as follows. The current economic crisis would never have happened if the country had been run by dogs. The expression \u2018going to the dogs\u2019, which is used by humans to mean something is going wrong, should be changed, as it is a complete fallacy. Dogs aren\u2019t the ones borrowing much more than they can afford. In fact they don\u2019t borrow things at all. They may occasionally take something they weren\u2019t meant to have, but they never do this with the intention of either giving it back or paying for the damage. We live within our means. If there\u2019s something we want that isn\u2019t ours we just become a bit meaner to get it.<\/p>\n
The outcome of the \u2018Are scraps enough?\u2019 debate is probably fairly predictable. I took a straw poll of the audience on this one and even the German Shepherd raised an eyelid long enough to agree that we should get a whole steak of our own and not just the bits that the kids can\u2019t eat. If his owners are reading this, he did just mention that he\u2019d rather you forewent the mustard.<\/p>\n
Dog unemployment is a much harder issue. This debate took a whole different turn than I was expected and by the end of it I was arguing that being a pet is itself a full time job and should be appropriately rewarded. Let\u2019s face it, by appropriate I don\u2019t mean the odd dog biscuit. Even the lowest paid human worker expects to get money that they can spend.<\/p>\n
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