Some cheese with that whine please

Yes, I am feeling rather fatigued because of the Online Dog Expo my online radio show co-host and I are organizing for Co-op World's Dog Community. Today has been a Murphy's Law day -you know the kind that "what can go wrong does" day? Our two top speakers are having major technical difficulties, exhibitor booths not ready, and some other issues not worth discussing here on a public forum. I've discovered that putting on an online expo is nearly as difficult as putting together an offline one and not the cakewalk I thought it might be. Nonetheless it's a learning experience.

What has this to do with a dog whining, except for the fact that I'm talking about a dog expo? Well first let me say I grabbed the title for this blog post from my good friend and co-host, Jeannie Thomason, who also runs an awesome online dog forum. I digress, anyway dogs whine when something is bothering them or if they want attention and I thought well if it's good enough for our canines and has purpose, then it has to be good enough for us. They whine, get it out and get the response they desire and then they move on. This is just another lesson in dog nature and how we can learn and apply great priniciples to our own lives if we'll but pay attention to how dogs operate.

One other thing, I heard a dog trainer say today that it is scientifically proven dogs don't have emotions. I BEG to differ. I think they have far more than we give them credit for and since I posed that to an online animal group I belong to I got a great response from a member so I'll share the link to the Wikipedia for your learning pleasure:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emotion_in_animals

Thanks for helping me out with the cheese on this whine! One last thing, don't forget to enter your dog into the National Dog Day Contest. Colleen Paige the founder of National Dog Day is going to be our featured guest during our live show in the Online Dog Expo and I'm pretty excited about that also. She's a lot of fun and if I were a dog, I'd whine to have her as my trainer just because she makes it all a great time and we all know dogs like to have a great time!

Have a tail waggin' day!