The Smarter Mammal

Many people think that dogs are a smart animal...but they don't think they are that smart. They think that when they tear a pillow up after you have previously punished them, they didnt' know any better."Nay!!", I shout in complete disbelief. All the soothsayers whom say, "Leave the ignorant animals alone to theirpillow spoils shall be proven wrong with this story of tragedy. Last night I went outside to work out on The Bowflex. 2 things: 1). Yes, The Bowflex. If you work out for 7 minutes a day you get chizzled and all yourchest hair falls out. 2). Yes, it was 115 degrees outside. But I only had to be out there for 7 minutes. I now believethe sun actually scorches your chest hair off. Anyways, I tripled the required workout time to 21 minutes for reasons unknown. When I first exited the comfort of home, I placed my cell phone on her crate about 2 feet away from me. The entire time I was outside, our dog Shea watched me, walked around a little, played in the grass,etc. She did not show any sign of interest whatsoever in the cell phone I put on her crate. I finished my workout,now feeling like a concentration camp victim shoved into a hot box, and walked inside. I had not been inside morethan 30 seconds before I realized I had forgotten my phone outside. I walked outside and Lo, it was nowhere tobe found. "Hmmmm," thought I. "Either the heat has melted my phone, a midget gnome has stolen it (they can't betrusted), or Shea has it." What do you know? Shea sat there watching me, and walked around the yard, for over 20minutes and didn't so much as look at the phone while I worked out. She waited until I walked inside, and then immediately nabbed it and took it over to the corner of the yard on the opposite side of the house. Nice, I am dealing with a faster animal with sharper teeth...and it's smarter than me.