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gabriel
Love and ferrets and pretending to be a writer.

2003-05-21 6:36 AM
Butt sniffing

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And now for the random thoughts of an undisciplined mind.

What got me started on this line of thought, which meanders, was a comment by my fiance' about my dear, sweet, charming, totally clean little ferret. She was trying to climb into the trash, and he said, "What a gross animal." I answered back, "All animals are gross." Then I thought, so are people. And they are. I mean we are. Which made me think of butt sniffing.

Butt sniffing is a common practice among dogs and other critters. Butt sniffing is a more accurate term than crotch sniffing because the information obtained by such is far more than sexual. Dogs learn all sorts of stuff about each other by sniffing. What sex someone is is obvious at the first whiff, and their receptiveness, too, is obvious enough to make others come from afar. Those things require no close up sniffing. People broadcast in the same way when they're in the mood or on the make, whether they think they mean to or not; but I digress. (Digression is what I am aiming at today, so it's okay. Can one aim at digression? Sure, why the heck not?)

Okay. Information obtained by butt sniffing. What's he been eating? Who's he with? Does he get any exercise? Is his person good to him?

People chuckle at butt sniffing, somewhat nervously, but we do it, too. Not being nose-oriented, we do it visually and aurally. Yes, I know the comparison's been made before, usually in the sense of someone cruising for tail. But we check other people out for lots of information. Let's do a little bit of word association.

Fat? Slob. Or, Fat? Lazy. Yes? Do we do this? Yes, we do. I am not so guilty of this particular one any more now that I am fat. I am getting smaller for the sake of my health and appearance (for my sweetheart and myself -- phooey on everybody else. Ha! Who am I kidding? I want to opt out of the "Fat? Slob." bit. Darned if I know why I care what the general public thinks, but I do.)

Blonde? Bleached. Heh heh. Probably. Most who are, do.

Long fingernails? Now THIS one would vary a lot, depending on a person's attitude. I see long fingernails and I see vanity of a crazy nature. I think people with long fingernails haven't been doing any work. I once saw a portrait of an alleged string trio. There is no chance the cellist was a real cellist. No chance at all, not with those acrylic nails. And people who say they are writers and have those long nails are liars, too.

Now it is getting late. I have to go to work soon, and I have not completed my digressions. I have even forgotten the next one. Rats.

Rats; that reminds me of where I started. A ferret is nothing like a rat, in spite of people's ridiculous assumptions. They are not rodents, but carnivores, same as cats and dogs. And they are gross animals in some ways, yes. But who isn't?

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