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Posted on February 3, 2018February 1, 2018 by Patrick

Lassie Is Part Italian

I saw an advertisement yesterday for a DNA test for dogs and I thought about what a sad, gullible, easily-brainwashed and influenced society we live in. I also thought about Lassie and about how rough it must have been for her to hear the news, “We’re sorry girl, I know all these years and through all those TV episodes you believed you were a Collie, but we just got the DNA results and it turns out that you’re actually an Italian Greyhound mixed with Cocker Spaniel and a little bit of retriever … It looks like your mom was boning every other dog in the neighborhood … we’re so sorry girl.”

Posted on December 2, 2017December 1, 2017 by Patrick

Hey, Cat Brain!

Researchers at Vanderbilt University have determined that dogs are smarter than cats. Turns out dogs have bigger brains, and more importantly, dogs have roughly 530 million neurons in that brain, while cats have about 250 million. The experts say that neurons in an animal’s cerebral cortex are a hallmark of intelligence. I knew this. We all knew this. The people at Vanderbilt are seemingly working on getting degrees in obvious.

Posted on September 21, 2017 by Patrick

Fur. Feathers. Fins.

Fun Facts: Animals

Life is mostly about the pursuit of knowledge and, therefore, the collection of fun facts. All my fun facts were harvested personally…They started as a physical book purchase from Amazon, then moved to a Kindle download where I bookmarked them by hand; at the conclusion of a book they were transcribed into a Snoopy Moleskine, and finally, they appear here for your personal wonderment.

Albatross spend 95% of their lives over open oceans; wandering albatross have the longest wingspan of all birds, 12 feet tip to tip; they can fly four million miles over a lifetime.
The sperm whale that attacked and sunk the whaling ship Essex in 1820 (the real world Moby Dick) was an 85 foot long male, weighing 80 tons with a 20 foot wide tail.
Penguins can cool their stomachs (using them like little refrigerators) to a temperature that slows digestion, they can therefore regurgitate and eat the same food over the course of days.