smart doggy

While stopping for a red light this morning, I saw a black dog walking slowly by the road side. When that dog reached the 3 way junction, he stopped. I can tell that the dog wanted to cross the road. But instead of looking out for cars, the dog looked at the traffic lights.

I thought I might have mistaken that as it was still very early in the morning, but I was right. The dog did indeed looked at the traffic lights. Once the traffic light changes to red and all cars stopped, the dog nonchalantly crossed the road, taking his own sweet time doing it. I was bewildered. Then, I pointed out to Emily “Look dear. I had never seen a dog so cool while crossing the road !”. *Dogs normally storm across the road when they have opportunity .. coz they know to get hit by a car/truck is not really nice. Some dumber and unprofessional dogs would storm without even looking … and often ended up as meat gunk on the road.*

After crossing the main road, that dog waited for another light to turn red, for which, he again nonchalantly crossed in front of a few motorcyclist and cars (who stopped for the red). Emily quipped “That dog knows about traffic lights … damn.” No doubt, that was the smartest dog I’ve ever seen in my life !

So what if a dog knew how to poop at proper places ? So what if a dog knew how to catch a frisbee ? Do you call that smart ? Well, look at this black dog - now that’s what I call smart. He’s smarter than Rob.

This intrigues me a bit, as I often encounter some bad experience with human pedestrians.

There’s once, I almost hit a housewife who was crossing a road. When I attempted to overtake a very slow moving van, I suddenly met that goddamn housewife who stood right in the middle of the traffic. She was lucky that I manage to yank my steering fast enough… which also caused my car to almost hit a divider. And I wouldn’t have blamed her if there’s no pedestrian crossing on that road … , but fuck .. there’s a giant overhead pedestrian bridge right above where the mishap almost occurred.

U know, it’s really disturbing for me (as a human) to learn the fact that, sometimes, we human would do grave mistakes that a dog wouldn’t even think of doing.

Well, this dog is a proof of an ongoing evolution. When a place got developed, the livings surrounding it will eventually evolve itself to suit the environment. Sooner, pls do not be surprised to see dogs getting paid to do some of our jobs … own an EPF account … buying shares … own some properties …writing programmes (imagine… Fatal Exception error : woof woof M1004 woof). Heck, they may even contest a seat or two during an election.

For sure, our existing politicians would find them competitive enough to stand a chance of ruling our country — coz I think the canines are intellectually as competent as our ministers; they bark, poo everywhere, lick other dog’s anus, fawn over their master, etc. And they always copulate in doggy style (belakang masuk) !