Canine Proofreading
August 7, 2008
Filed under Parenting & Family Posts
When Youngest Son was even younger (around 4 y.o.), we were walking the dog one day and he asked, “Why 
do dogs do wee (urinate) everywhere they go?” I explained that they were leaving messages for other dogs to say they’d been here.
Another time he asked “Why do dogs sniff trees all the time?” “Because they’re reading the messages left there by other dogs. It’s kind of like email.”
Armed with this rich understanding of the ways of the world, my son was satisfied. He said nothing more on the topic for the past 4 years, except the occasional “I wonder what she’s writing” when we’d walk our dog and she’d pause for a moment …
Yesterday, the budding stand-up comic watches the dog taking a leak in our backyard (as you do when you’re bored). He turns to me and says “I know why dogs sniff their own wee when they’re finished. They’re checking back over what they’ve written. And if they see a ‘b’ where there should be a ‘d’, they-” and here he mimes a dog cocking its leg – “rewrite that part.”
Very observant. Kids that age take things VERY literally.
Friend of mine, while teaching his young boy how to take a shower, showed him that he could pee at the same time, and the little one thought it was pretty funny.
Couple of days went by until the little one asked to take a shower by himself. After he was done and towelled off, he called his dad into the bathroom and showed him the “sample” sitting next to the drain…
I like a kid who takes pride in his work.
Where to begin?
Hmm… First, this gave me a good chuckle
Second, your kids brilliant.
Third, your story is proof that the world has changed. Your son is the first generation to ever receive an analogy between dog wee and email.
What I want to know is “why is that pug taking a wiz on two legs?”
That’s easy. It’s demented. (It was the funnier of the images I googled)
Danielle, the real reason is “because it can”.
Pete, just because you are fond of puns from now on this shall be called “weemail.”
Zing!
Pretty funny indeed! I’m guessing dogs don;t have spell check?
Nuh. Gotta sniff out the typoes manually.