If you’re an animal lover, you know that dogs have a funny fascination for toilets. I can’t really explain why but they are special to us. They have interesting smells and despite your disgust we even like to drink out of them. There’s even a company that makes dog toilet drinking bowls. (See photo below.)
When you put stuff in toilets, it disappears. This process is what humans refer to as ‘flushing’. (I know this for a fact because I dropped one of my toys in the toilet and hit the handle thing and – whoosh – my toy vanished.) You gotta appreciate a dog’s joy for simple distractions.
I was sharing flushing stories with Jet (my foster mom) and she said humans should remember how critical flushing is to their health.
Huh?
Jet used to teach practical wellness for executive workshops and kick-boxing classes. One of her goals was to get humans to drink more water to help ‘flush’ their body of toxins. (– And all this time I thought flushing was just a fun distraction for dogs.)
The way Jet explains it, “Our body is like a giant toilet.” Cool! As we ingest food our body produces waste. Water helps us dump the toxins and waste more quickly and efficiently. Since most humans are chronically dehydrated (beer does not count as water) then most people are like walking toilets that haven’t been flushed all day. (This is even gross to a dog.)
Personally, I will never view a toilet in the same way again. Jet also says that water is great for improving your brainpower. Why? The brain is made of about 85% water molecules. When we are dehydrated, our stress hormones go up, our mental performance goes down as much as 10%, we become tired, un-alert and irritable.
Geez, I just wanted to talk about how fun it is to flush a toilet.
So, here’s my lesson of the day… In a dog’s world, a toilet is just an interesting place to watch stuff disappear. In a human’s world, the toilet should be a regular reminder to drink more water so your body flushes as often as your toilet flushes.
Okay, the question of the day is from Shauncie who asked: My humans were all excited yesterday about getting a new cash cow. Does this cow make cash instead of milk?
Dear Shauncie:
I can’t tell if you’re young and naïve or simply a few fries short of a Happy Meal so I’ll keep my answer easy for you. The term ‘cash cow’ is what humans refer to as some type of business that creates a lot of money beyond their initial investment. What does a cow have to do with this? Read explanation below from: wise geek.
http://www.wisegeek.com/what-is-a-cash-cow.htm
The classic example of a cash cow is a milk cow. Milk cows require a small capital outlay when they are acquired, and minimal mainten-ance costs afterwards. In return for their low maintenance costs, milk cows generate milk throughout their adult lives, along with calves. Since the 1600s, people were using “milch cow” to refer to a profitable venture; the modern term “cash cow” emerged around the 1970s.
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