A few brief statements from Yer Pal Tsunami

1)When you're here, you're not somewhere else.

2)Just because they haven't, doesn't mean they won't.

3)The very least you can do is nothing.

4)I believe cats and dogs are very, very smart. Back in the depths of history (or pre-history, I should say) they realized that humans were evolutionally superior, smarter, and stronger than any other species, so they allowed themselves to be domesticated. They traded their particular skills (cats-lethal hunters of small creatures and vermin, and dogs-their super heightened senses of hearing and smell, along with powerful jaws and loyalty that can reach fearlessness) for free food, and safety, knowing we would no longer be in competition as a direct threat to their survival. Now if, as I believe, humans one day leave this planet, and venture deep into space, cats and dogs will come with us, and thus ensure their survival and spread across the universe.

"Why?" You of course ask, of this preposterous hypothesis.

Well, when we go, we undoubtedly are going to bring stow-a-ways, mice, rats, roaches (I have a sneaky suspicion that there are a few "guests" on the International Space Station as we speak) which are the kind of things cats are super good at catching. Now, besides the fact that a dog was actually the first mammal humans shot into space (with sort-of bad results for the beast as I recall) once we get to a place where there is already life hanging out, ready to eat the fuck out of our intrepid explorers/colonists, we are going to need a hyper-aware sentry, or watchdog, if you will. A sentry that won't break down like an alarm system when the power goes out, or malfunctions occasionally like a smoke detector. And also a sentry that would alert us, then attack/distract a hostile alien until we wake up, throw on slippers, and grab a weapon big enough to shoot the thing to death.

5)I am not a cat guy at all, but I have made the aquaintence of a few really super cool cats.

6)I'm a bad speller, and it seems as tho thru some "upgrade" blogger's spellcheck stopped working. I apologize for words posted that are incorrectly spelled for the last week or so.

That is all.

-Tsunami-