Ray’s Thought for the Day - Pet Parades
As is well known, we have some dogs and cats at the CB. Why don’t any of the semi-tame CB dogs ever get to go along on the Promenade for Produce? A great many other dogs get to go, why not ours? Easy that, our dogs would start a fuss. Even the oldest, semi-continent, semi-tame one of our dogs would, start a fuss. How would they start a fuss? Easy that, they would attack the other dogs on promenade parade or steal food. So they don’t get to go. They’d start a fuss.
If you want to learn about the cultures of foreign parts, read suchlike related articles in what passes for the daily newspaper that is probably intermittently delivered to the general vicinity of your doorstep in your parts. Chances are, since the articles are syndicated, you will learn the same stuff from your daily, that I, Ray, learn from mine. A personal observation: the spells in the syndicated articles on foreign culture, seem way more accurate than the science related spells, that are spelled out in that same venue, syndicated newspapers. I know nothing about culture in foreign parts. So the articles may spell virtually anything, real or virtual, and I’m good to go with whatever, because I don’t know any actual facts independent of what I’m reading. That’s why, my opinion is, that the foreign culture articles must be more accurate and factually-based, than the science articles.
The foreign culture article that attracted my attention today was No sale of cats, dogs in Saudi Arabia. The fact is, according to Ms. Donna Abu-Nasr, the author, Saudi Arabia is the only Arab country that restricts pet ownership. Another fact is, “some youths have been buying them (pets) and parading them in public”. So now the government has banned the sale of pets, that might get to go on parade otherwise, in the municipalities of Jiddah and Mecca. Doubtless, especially, the ban applies also to dogs with behavioral agendas similar to those behavioral agendas our CB dogs display. Naturally, all the pet store vendors and veterinarians, in Jiddah and Mecca, are freaking out over the ban. The ban may be bad for their economy.
One part of this interesting article that especially caught my attention was the name of the author, Donna. Remember, I am entirely ignorant when it comes to Muslim culture. I know nothing. But in my opinion, the family names and the Christian names of Muslims are presented in an order reversed to the way our own names are presented. For example, if I was a Muslim, then my name would be, Pistrum Ray. Sallam, all righty then! So that opinion got me to speculating on whether Donna might be kin to some of the other famous Donnas, like Donna Reed, or, Oh! Donna!, or the famous Cheech and Chong, Donna.
Here’s another interesting fact presented in this very interesting and informative article. “Conservative Muslims consider dogs unclean.” How about that? Druids do too, sort of. That’s why we don’t eat them, and only keep them around for company. Ha! We Druids have some common ground with the conservative Muslims after all. I was beginning to wonder if we had any common ground and here we have some common ground to stand on. We should open negotiations. I can’t do that on my own though, open negotiations. The older Druids would have to make that decision. Praise be to the White Goddess in all Her from Three to Five Iterations.
Finally, the most interesting fact of the entire article is this fact. “ Muslim tradition holds that the Prophet Muhammad loved cats - and even let a cat drink from his ablution water before washing himself for prayers.” Good Goddess! A common behavior of the kitty cats indicates more common ground, fer sure!
If you want to learn about the cultures of foreign parts, read suchlike related articles in what passes for the daily newspaper that is probably intermittently delivered to the general vicinity of your doorstep in your parts. Chances are, since the articles are syndicated, you will learn the same stuff from your daily, that I, Ray, learn from mine. A personal observation: the spells in the syndicated articles on foreign culture, seem way more accurate than the science related spells, that are spelled out in that same venue, syndicated newspapers. I know nothing about culture in foreign parts. So the articles may spell virtually anything, real or virtual, and I’m good to go with whatever, because I don’t know any actual facts independent of what I’m reading. That’s why, my opinion is, that the foreign culture articles must be more accurate and factually-based, than the science articles.
The foreign culture article that attracted my attention today was No sale of cats, dogs in Saudi Arabia. The fact is, according to Ms. Donna Abu-Nasr, the author, Saudi Arabia is the only Arab country that restricts pet ownership. Another fact is, “some youths have been buying them (pets) and parading them in public”. So now the government has banned the sale of pets, that might get to go on parade otherwise, in the municipalities of Jiddah and Mecca. Doubtless, especially, the ban applies also to dogs with behavioral agendas similar to those behavioral agendas our CB dogs display. Naturally, all the pet store vendors and veterinarians, in Jiddah and Mecca, are freaking out over the ban. The ban may be bad for their economy.
One part of this interesting article that especially caught my attention was the name of the author, Donna. Remember, I am entirely ignorant when it comes to Muslim culture. I know nothing. But in my opinion, the family names and the Christian names of Muslims are presented in an order reversed to the way our own names are presented. For example, if I was a Muslim, then my name would be, Pistrum Ray. Sallam, all righty then! So that opinion got me to speculating on whether Donna might be kin to some of the other famous Donnas, like Donna Reed, or, Oh! Donna!, or the famous Cheech and Chong, Donna.
Here’s another interesting fact presented in this very interesting and informative article. “Conservative Muslims consider dogs unclean.” How about that? Druids do too, sort of. That’s why we don’t eat them, and only keep them around for company. Ha! We Druids have some common ground with the conservative Muslims after all. I was beginning to wonder if we had any common ground and here we have some common ground to stand on. We should open negotiations. I can’t do that on my own though, open negotiations. The older Druids would have to make that decision. Praise be to the White Goddess in all Her from Three to Five Iterations.
Finally, the most interesting fact of the entire article is this fact. “ Muslim tradition holds that the Prophet Muhammad loved cats - and even let a cat drink from his ablution water before washing himself for prayers.” Good Goddess! A common behavior of the kitty cats indicates more common ground, fer sure!
posted by ray pistrum at Sunday, September 17, 2006
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