Be True to ThySelf

There’s something called the Social Contagion Theory. Sounds like a disease to me. Jet, my foster mom, says it is a term that means certain human behavior spreads (like a social disease) when one human feeds off the emotions of the group they hang out with all the time.

For example (as some recent study revealed), “humans with a divorced sibling are 22 percent more likely to get divorced than humans who don't have divorced siblings. Humans who had a divorced friend were 147 percent more likely to be divorced than people whose friends' marriages were intact.

… A divorced co-worker can increase the likelihood of another employee divorcing by 55 percent compared to an employee who works with non-divorced employees.”

Huh?

Humans get the insights and courage they need from the people they hang out with in order to make some of the greatest decisions in their life? Jet says that sometimes this is true.

So, here’s my lesson of the day… It’s okay to listen to other humans (or in my case to hang out with other dogs) but just remember that if you lie down with dogs, you wake up with fleas. The point being that humans obviously pick up stuff from each other just like dogs. So, humans should be sure the contagious behavior of their friends is something they want to catch.

Okay, here’s the question of the day from Flipper who asked: Hi, I’m Flipper. No, I’m not a dolphin. I’m a dog so please don’t’ make fish jokes. …My mom got upset with me the other day because she thought I was still eating her flowers. I told her it wasn’t me because I promised to give up eating flowers if she would give up cigarettes. She kept her promise and I kept mine.

Dear Flipper:

I read the rest of your letter and based on your description of what remains of your mother’s flowers, I believe it is rabbits consuming her pretty blossoms. I might suggest she try DEER OFF or CRITTER RIDDER (see info below). My mom uses Deer Off to repel rabbits, squirrels and such and it works great (bad smell and taste) without hurting them.

http://www.havahart.com/store/animal-repellents/do64ms


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