KINGS OF LEON
Dogs are strange creatures. Cute and fluffy and cheeky and crazy mostly, but if you’ve ever watched different ones in a big park over time, you’ll note when it comes to ‘doing the business’ that the varied strategy and timeframes involved for successful ‘poopies’ seem as wildly unique and idiosyncratic for each pooch. Or is it?
Some do it quickly while others take much longer; some sniff every tree while others can’t be bothered. Add in whether a dog starts to circle first, or selectively does a few figure eights (highbrow, very upperclass), or merely ‘opens the bomb bay doors’ straight away - and you would be forgiven for thinking you were reading way much too into these things and it wasn’t worth further investigation.
Yet what if there really were ‘method to the madness’ and things really were ‘not always as they seem’?
Just as it turns out dogs are actually lining themselves up on an innately preferred north-south magnetic-pole axis (called ‘magneto-reception’ – thanks Frontiers In Zoology), many things in life are equally as complex
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