LOST IN TRANSLATION...

Here we are in the midst of the Blogging Doldrums and I hope that you are all enjoying the Holiday Season. While many of you were pulling tinsel out of your cat's bum I was getting my computer back up and running and...

I just returned from a Canadian tradition of going across the American border to experience a cross cultural experience in Grand Forks, North Dakota.

Grand Forks is of course infamous for hiding Nuclear Weapons in plain sight to deter those Godless Communist Ruskies from starting sumthin' that they ain't gonna finish during the Cold War.

Most North Dakotans cannot accept that a country with 30 million people could actually exist any further north than them. As if humans could exist in a climate colder than Pluto next to Alaska! When people in Grand Forks ask you where y'all from and you say Winnipeg they just smile and say OkeeDokee as if you are a lunatic.

The biggest challenge is simply trying to get into the USA in this post 9/11 world. As you nervously hand over your Canadian Birth Certificate and Driver's License the steely eyed Border Guard orders you to start singing,
"Bye Bye Miss American Pie, Drove my Chevy from the Levy..." then he asks a few questions

"What is the State bird of Arizona?"
"Who won SuperBowl XXII?"
having memorised the 3,000 page entry examination book you answer correctly and seconds before you are ready to snap and accept full responsibility for the Lindbergh Baby Kidnapping he reluctantly let's you pass..luckily there were no members of al Qaeda present in my vehicle when I received my one and only speeding ticket in back in 1994 or I would be writing this from the Guantanamo Bay Koranic Retreat Centre in Cuba.

Despite the hassle Winnipeggers make up the majority of the tourists that travel 150 miles South to Grand Forks a quaint city of 67,000 of which 12,954 are students at the University of North Dakota.

Grand Forks is 92% 'White', 57% of them voted for Bush, and booze is practically free, which would seem to be a recipe for disaster but somehow it continues to be a vibrant destination for us Canadians because we are such cheapskates.

You see most of us travel to Grand Forks to go shopping at the
Super TARGET,
which we pronounce
TAR-ZJAY,
where for instance I purchased a shirt for $1.94...
I kid you not.

We also love to get snacks and gas at the inappropriately named Loaf 'N Jug mini mart!

Any trip to GF is not complete unless you drive across the bridge into the State of Minnesota and visit Cabela's. Cabela's is a recreational weaponery and wildlife decimation emporium.

Leave your thin skinned vegetarian animal rights bleeding heart at the door. Here young Americans stroll through the sporting goods wearing T Shirts that read
I LOVE WILD ANIMALS..
they taste great!

There is a staggering collection of stuffed North American Creatures on display. Any creature that you could Google be it fish, fowl or mammal, has been exterminated with extreme recreational prejudice and fashionably mounted on a gigantic 3 storey high montage and throughout the gigantic store. It is sort of like going to a hunting museum.

Here the timid gun averse Canadian tourists nervously wander about the 'Sporting Goods ' with mouths agape and stare blankly at items such as this Gatling Gun which you can purchase for $30,000.

Why not get yourself a sweet .44 Magnum and pretend that you are Dirty Harry..

"go ahead little Duck...make my day!"

So to recap:

Whateverpeggers are drawn to Grand Forks by impossibly cheap booze, affordable 80s styled clothing and the simple thrill of visiting a small but well armed city full of white people with Nuclear Weapons!

Oh and gettin' snacks at the Loaf N Jug!

MERRY CRIZZMESS
A tedious examination of the Merry Mishmash of
CHRIST'S MASS, MITHRAS & CHRISTMYTHS

On December 25th the Romans
celebrated the festival of the

Invincible

Sun

God

MITHRAS.

http://www.medmalexperts.com/POCM/pagan_christs_mithras.html

Mithraism was a Persian import that had
been celebrated for hundreds of years and the Emperor Aurelian
made it a state religion in 274.

Later on another Emperor, Constantine, whose conversion and subsequent induction of Christianity as the new state religion made a deliberate effort to eliminate the rival religion of Mithraism by decreeing in 313 that December 25th was now officially Christ's Mass.

Constantine legally mandated that
December 25th was the birthday of
JESUS, the Son of God instead of
MITHRAS, the Sun God !
so Crizzmess is off to a confusing start!

btw Constantine's Mother spent years in the Holy Land, at the taxpayer's expense, searching for the Holy Grail.

If you would like a more realistic birth date for Yeshua/Jesus (nobody knows) try investigating March 25th, May 20th or even April 1st.

Shepherds only guard their flocks of sheep day and night during lambing time which is in the Spring, not in December.

Another nagging problem, aside from getting the wrong birthday for Jesus,
is that we don't know the exact year either...
unfortunately the abscence of the year zero makes matters worse
because his birthyear must be guesstimated somewhere between 4 - 6 BC.

HUH!
Jesus was born 4 years Before Christ?

In 525 AD a monk named Dionyius Exiguus tried to calculate
the birthyear of Jesus and decided on
753 AUC.

The Romans dated everything from the founding of Rome:
AUC (Anno Urbis Conditae) which according to our Gregorian calendar is 753 BC.

So he decided that Jesus was born 753 years after the formation of Rome and invented 'in the first year of our lord' also known as 1 AD (Anno Domini).

753 AUC= 753 BC = 1 AD Got it?

There is a problem with Exiguus choosing 753 AUC /1 AD as the birthyear of Jesus because the three historical figures mentioned in the famous nativity story were only cast in their roles during a brief 3 year period.

The Biblical Books of Luke and Mathew, compiled decades after the event, tell us that Augustus was Emperor, Quirinius was Governor, and Herod was King when Jesus was born. Thanks to Roman records we know that all three dignitaries were only in power from 747(6BC) until 749(4BC).

So Dionysius Exiguus was out by 4 years.
He should have picked 747, 748 or 749..oh never mind.
Are you still with me? C'mon I'm almost finished!

I realise that most people don't seem to care that our history books state that Jesus was born 6 or 4 years before he should have been or that his date of birth wasn't December 25th!

However the implications of acknowledging Jesus's Birthday are far reaching because the Western World chose, and portions of it still maintain, that
THE BIRTH OF JESUS WAS THE PIVOTAL POINT IN ALL OF HISTORY,
and many regard it as a magical SYSTEM RESTORE application that overshadows everything that happened before, and some would argue since, as superfluous data.

So these other pesky problems such as
Jesuslikely being born in NAZARETH and not BETHLEHEM,
or the borrowing of the the VIRGIN BIRTH story,
or the artistic license of implicating DAVIDIC lineage without JOSEPH's sperm does matter to some extent.
Like it or not it does affect the rest of history and deserves to be corrected!

Right now it is a Very Merry MISHMASH.

BUT...
So What if Jesus wasn't born on December 25th, most Christians
don't care about that anyway, it is the tidings of comfort and joy
that matters..and So What if everything about Mythmas is borrowed,
from Virgin Births,
Yule Logs,
Sinter Claus,
to even Candles,
if somehow a message of Peace, Love, and Understanding can infiltrate through the calamity and horror of this world and give mankind (1/3rd of them anyway) some hope for a better tomorrow..why not.

*Oh before I forget, because our ancestors neglected to create a year 0
this raises another tedious problem.
The millenium actually started January 1st, 2001 and not on January 1st, 2000!
That's another blog !

So
MERRY MITHRAS /MYTHMASS or
CHRISTMAS
whichever you prefer,
to One and All!

THE MIND NUMBING BANALITY
OF PROFESSIONAL SPORTS!

Imagine arriving on Earth after lightyears of travelling through space and time to find that the alpha inhabitants reward and revere 'adults playing children's games' as some of the most valuable members of the species?

WTF?!!!




After reviewing the Forbes Wealthiest Athletes list I realised how stupid we would look and I have no doubt that the extraterrestrials would not hesitate to annihilate us. http://www.forbes.com/2004/06/23/04athletesland.html


The top two are Tiger Woods & Michael Schumacher $80 M each, and Golf and Auto Racing are such testaments to physical prowess!

Seriously, why do we sit back and let people hitting, throwing and catching spherical objects, or worse yet driving cars, make tens of millions of dollars?

It is absolutely embarrassing considering the REAL problems that plague our species.

Christopher Lasch wrote about Sports in his mind blowing book The Culture of Narcissism (1978)

" Games enlist skill and intelligence,
the utmost concentration of purpose,
on behalf of activities utterly useless,
which make no contribution to the struggle of man against nature,
to the wealth or comfort of the community,
or to it's physical survival."

Lasch goes on to say that,
"Sports substitute ideal conditions for the normal confusion of everyday life, recreating the the freedom and perfection of childhood and marking it off from ordinary life with artificial boundaries."

"It's appeal is it's artificiality!"

Instead of rewarding people who give their heart, mind and souls to bettering the living conditions of all human beings we pay exhorbitant prices for tickets or through advertisers whoring themselves for our eyeballs so that Corporations can afford to pay athletes these outrageous sums of money to play games!

We totally deserve it.

I think that Sports will start to slide in popularity as the sheer hypocrisy of the spectacle, and it's vapid value in and of itself, will lose ground to other more cerebral forms of entertainment.

"What began as an attempt to invest sport with religious significance, indeed to make it a surrogate religion in it's own right, ends with the demystification of sport, the assimilation of sport to show business."

Just think about what could be accomplished if all of this money was redirected to helping others. I think that we Earthlings deserve to be evicted.
We are ridiculous for allowing this spectacle to get so far out of hand...

don't you think that this is completely insane???!

SOMETHING IS FISHY?!

Last night my family went to the theatre to see Happy Feet, an amazing animated movie centred around a Penquin trying to get humans to stop overfishing.

Later that evening I watched a documentary on Sperm Whales, the largest carnivores on the planet. It is estimated that Sperm Whales consume an estimated 100 Million tons of prey every year. Every year Humans consume about the same amount of fish and catch about 130 Million Tons annually.

Then this morning I read in the Newspaper that the 6th annual Census of Marine Life, 2000 researchers from 80 countries, reported that the deeper parts of the Oceans, especially Anarctica, are full of fish.

They found 500 new species and located one specific school of fish that was the size of Manhattan and estimated that it contained 20 million fish!

This is the opposite of a report last year from the Food Agriculture Organization of the United Nations which reported that:

52% of fisheries are fully exploited, depleted or in recovery!
21% are moderately exploited
16% are over exploited
7% depleted
1% recovery from depletion
3% under exploited

Fishing methods such as bottom trawling use nets that are big enough to hold 3 Jumbo Jets and scrape bare an area twice the size of the US every year!!

Sperm Whales are of course designed to exploit a mysterious deep dark world far below the surface battling and eating Giant squid.

After inhaling air for 10 minutes at the surface a Sperm Whale can dive 3000 feet below and stay under for 90 minutes. For instance, diving around the main island of Hawaii, the world's tallest mountain (3,280 feet higher than Everest), these leviathons swim through an eerie alien mountain range of underwater volcanos.

Did you know that Life on Earth may have actually evolved at the bottom of the Sea without sunlight, fed only by chemicals and heat from the Earth's molten core?

A full grown Bull, 60 feet long weighing 60 tons, can stun a diver with the sonic pulses of his sonar..but the blast from a Navy ship searching for Nuclear Submarines can blind a whale and force them to surface too quickly and get the bends.

Disoriented whales at the surface the Whale can easily be struck by one of the 30,000 gigantic cargo ships that criss cross our oceans every year. Not only that but all of the NOISE from these ships disrupts Whale communications which normally extend for hundreds of miles.

Now from Happy Feet to Sperm Whales to Fishing Reports all of the focus was on the fish that were once safe from humans huddled at the bottom of the world. Here in Anarctica the the Plankton dissolves more Carbon Dioxide than all of the trees in the world!

I have little doubt that humans are about to eviscerate ANTARCTICA, the last stronghold of the Blue Planet.
The mighty Sperm Whale of Moby Dick fame and still recovering from Whaling will lose.

The Sperm Whale may have the largest brain that ever developed on Earth (20 lbs, human brains are 3lbs) but it won't save them.

Thanks to slow reproductive rates and countries like Japan who are desperate to resume whaling on a massive scale, the elimination of these perceived competitors will probably succeed. The Sperm and all other Whales will disappear as will the Penquins and eventually so will the fish that we all feed on...
and then us.

Most Scientists agree that all coastal fisheries are in serious trouble from overfishing and pollution. The deep virgin waters of Anarctica which are home to 2/3rds of the fish on the planet will be targeted to feed the 6.6 Billion humans.

Do you think that there is ANY chance that concerned countries will be able to police conservation efforts out in the middle of the Oceans?

TOO CLOSE TO HOME!

Last night at around 11pm I was catching up on other Blogs when I heard a car door slam, then another and another and another...

I looked out my front door and counted atleast
20 Police cars!!,
3 Fire Engines and 5 Ambulances.

I ran out and found that our street, which is a busy thoroughfare here in Winnipeg, had been completely cordoned off.

I knew instantly that only one thing would bring that many Uniforms.. a Police Officer must have been injured or shot. I ran upstairs to tell my wife because you never see that many Cop Cars in one place at the same time..

it was like a scene in a movie.

This morning my backlane is filled with Police cars and on the National news I learned that

3 Police Officers had been shot.

All three are in the hospital with gunshot wounds..one with a leg wound, one in the hand and one seriously wounded by a gunshot wound to the abdomen.

One suspect was wounded and is in hospital.The Police had been serving a warrant to a house 6 doors down and almost directly across the street from our city's famous Bridge Drive In Ice Cream Parlor.

A neighbour that I met in the backlane told me that the occupants of the house were suspected of drug dealing. WTH! This is an ordinary working/middle class neighbourhood, 5 minutes from Downtown Winnipeg, where the streets are lined with beautiful, gigantic Elm trees.

This sort of thing has never ever happened here before. I hate to even think that something like this could happen in my neighbourhood, but it probably it happens in every neighbourhood doesn't it?.

Since the backlane is still closed off with Police tape and Forensic Vehicles, my wife had to walk over a block to meet her car pool ride. My son and I will have to cut through somebody's yard to get to school this morning. You can read about it here: http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/breakingnews/story/3806709p-4402786c.html

I hope that those Officers are OK, their families must be living through their worst nightmare...hopefully none of the injured Policemen are guys that I went to school with.

All in all it's a little, no make that,

WAY TOO CLOSE TO HOME!

HEY GOOD LOOKIN'
WHATCHA GOT COOKIN'?

Let's be honest...Cooking Shows are not really just about Cooking and Society no longer resembles the Leave It To Beaver June Cleaver world of the 50s anymore does it? So WHY are they still reheating this tired old format? Aren't they getting spread a little too thin?

I mean C'MON you and I are never, ever, going to try and duplicate those ridiculous recipes....pffft!

First of all most of us don't have 5,ooo square feet of Kitchen space that is equipped with $200,000 worth of equipment and a pantry that is overflowing and stocked with every known edible substance on the planet.

These televisual feasts began in the 50s so that advertisers could sell crap to the ubiquitous American Housewife. But those days and demographics are gone, so why are they still making these shows and for whom?

HEllO!
Cooking shows featuring Hottie Hostesses are served up for Gay Women, Gay Men and and a smattering of straight guys.

Shows featuring Hunky Hosts are primarily whipped up for Gay Men and a sprinkling of straight women.

For the record I am not a homophobe and I have Gay friends and relatives just like you do..whether you realise it or not.

I always enjoyed the odd foray out dancing with mixed company at Whateverpeg's hot gay bar Geo's, and in all of my years in commercial real estate I never had more fun than when I relocated our city's lesbian nightclub, Ms Purdy's, back to their original location.

That being said have you ever noticed that Martha is actually 'pretty butch' but most of the other gals are sooo girly. Why would housewives want to look at women that are so pulled together in the middle of the day anyway?

According to urban legend and stereotypical TV and Film representations of persons who are biologically homosexual in their orientation...oh for gawdsake...
look most people believe that Gay people spend an inordinate amount of time finessing in the kitchen and are more fanatical about entertaining in a perfectly coordinated home...right?

What are the odds that the Ad Geniuses are going to waste millions of dollars on an endangered species like stay at home run of the mill housewives sittin' around scratchin' themselves in their moo-moos while eating a bag of storebought cookies and watchin' Springer, Maury or Montel?

Puh-leeze!

Ok maybe a few, but they are throwin' money out the window!
Here is a good example...
My buddy Within, Without and I are big fans of Nigella...mmmm...
I must confess that we have actually watched her show when we get together during our weekly guy's night out.

BUT...We could care less what she is cooking up because one cannot help but notice the goodies on her rack. If that doesn't give you a hankerin' for some English Muffin what would? Which segment of the population is interested in tarts like her? Hmmm?

So basically those advertisers are simply burning their money when a couple of mooks like us watch her?

What about the latest Flavour of the Month, the terminally perky Rachel Ray. Which daytime viewers are really interested in her pie?








Now Ladies, I ask you...why would they call Jamie Oliver's show the Naked Chef?
Who likes his buns?








If The Naked Chef looked more like this then ordinary housewives and gay men would be a lot happier.
Now you're cookin' with gass!







One exception may be South Park's Chef who dispenses the vital ingredients to young adults for
makin' L O V E, old school.
But I may be wrong about that too.






Unfortunately my Mother's generation had to set their timers for Graham's crackers..ew...
well it was either him or the amazonian Julia Childs?
Can you say Man Hands!

It should be obvious by now who these shows are really made for. It's time to just accept the fact that what's cookin' on TV may not be designed for the one size fits all world...

so you don't have to feel guilty about pulling it all together anymore.

Whew!

I AM TURNING 49 TODAY!

Now as far as I know 49 doesn't have any universal significance. Not like 69 nudge nudge wink wink say no more!

Actually as far as I was concerned 49 was simply going to be the year devoted to accepting the concept that next year when I turn 50 that I will be referred to by others as middle aged.

Truth be told very few people actually live to be 100 so 50 is not really an accurate benchmark.

The average lifespan of a North American in 1901 was 49, now it is 77....
which means that Middle Age actually occurs when you hit 38.5.

Apparently the average Earthling lives to be around 66 and the oldest recorded human was 122..so she didn't hit Middle Age until 61!

Throughout most of History most human beings could only expect to live between 25 to 35 years.

I was reading the statistics on how 2.5 Million Americans exited this world in 2003 and I found it morbidly fascinating that the causes included;

762 bicycle accidents,
875 choking on their food,
47 lightning,
594 fell out of bed,
22 skydiving,
1,588 fell down stairs,
11,212 overdosed on drugs,
1 measles,
43 salmonella,
32 dog attack,
365 fell off of a ladder.
and not a single fatality was caused by Blogging!

In order to successfully navigate through the next 28 statistically probable years of my existence in a sane, healthy, constructive mode I need to prescribe for myself a plan that is simple and universal;

try to be more charming and less tedious,
(not always easy for me),

learn something new about the world everyday,
(very easy),

try to exchange my schadenfreude (pleasure taken from someone else's misfortune) for the Buddhist concept of Mudita which is the exact opposite,
(pathetic but true)

to enjoy and cherish whatever time that I have with my wife, children, family and friends,
(they make it so easy..most of the time),

to not fear the end of this life,
(nobody gets out alive so what are ya gonna do?),

concentrate on giving back more than I receive,
(oink oink oink),

and to make atleast one person laugh every single day.
(especially strangers),

I must confess that I am absolutely thrilled to have met so many of you thoughtful, wonderful, funny, intelligent, interesting people from all over the world since I discovered Blogging..
I have not been this content and comfortable in my own skin since my Triassic Period back in College.

I seem to have rediscovered my voice and it is very exciting. Strange as it sounds Blogging has restored my nagging optimism about People.
You can dismiss this as sycophantic drivel if you like but I feel reconnected to the world. Afterall, I am just a click and a tap away from YOU.

I discovered that I have learned as much about myself as I have about others.

Hello my name is Donn and I'm a blogoholic!
Thank You...and if we can change our names and even our sex, why can't we legally change our age?
FORTY NINE, SCHMORTY NINE!

IF WE CAN LEGALLY CHANGE OUR NAME AND EVEN OUR SEX,
THEN WHY CAN'T WE CHANGE OUR AGE?

Today is December 6th, as FDR once said,
"a day that will live in infamy"..
wait that was Dec 7th..
today is just my birthday and I am 49.

When you are a kid it isn't great having a birthday in December because it is too close to you-know-who's birthday. Instead of having the two biggest days of the year (getting presents) spread out over the year it's all crammed into one month.

What is even more annoying is that you-know-who's BIG Birthday celebration never even happened on December 25th, and mine did!

Celebrating Christmas on December 25th was a completely fabricated and calculated attempt to outdo the huge December 25th festival of the competition, Mithraism.

The Roman Emperor Constantine made Christianity the official state religion in 337 and the Natalis Solis Invicti, the Birthday of the invincible sun god Mithras on Dec. 25th, as well as the December festival of Saturnalia, which had been celebrated by Romans for 1,000 years, were replaced by Christ's Mass.

Now a more realistic date for Yeshua's Birthday is April or May..but what are ya gonna do?
I will save the rest of my kvetching for my Christmas Rant: Tirade of Discomfort and Joy...

where were we?..
I was born on this day 49 years ago in the little town of Whateverpeg.

Notice that I did not say nearly fifty years ago or almost half a Century ago..
because that sounds like a long time.

I am still in my forties (nyeh) and up until yesterday the same age as Madonna and Michael Jackson...
and in 2 short days my nemesis Donny Osmond will also be 49.

Now aside from the NFL team in San Francisco and some band that I don't know from Adam, #49 doesn't really bring to mind any specific imagery unlike certain other numbers like the infamous # 69!

So therefore I am going to take the next twelve months in stride as simply being Middle Aged.

The pipe, sweater, slippers and hemorrhoid cushion can all wait another year.

To be honest I don't expect Middle Age to be that big of a deal since I went through the self humiliation of the Mid Life Crisis in my thirties.

So no heavy bling (Mt T Starter Kit) shiny red convertibles or twenty something Arm Candy either.

If any of you had any life changing Road To Damascus type events present themselves on or during your 49th please let me know..otherwise 49 seems to be a non-eventful twelve months that you are given to prepare for turning 50!

If anybody knows what doin a '49' actually entails, and if I'll need to go to a chiropractor if I attempt it, that information will be greatly appreciated.

THE ALIENS AMONG US
Cats and Dogs may share our homes but they live in a different world.

According to a Canadian Geographic special that I watched it is incredibly different.
For starters they see the world in
bluish green.

We humans have eyes that are adapted to diurnal living as opposed to the nocturnal vision of most mammals. Scientists believe that this nocturnal existance evolved as the reptilian mammals evolved to take advantage of the solar powered Dinosaurs inactivity at night.

Cats and Dogs have eyes with more rods for magnifying light while humans have more cones for colour.
Dogs and Cats cannot see anything that is in the RED spectrum!

So during the daytime your cat sees the world as if it were an overexposed greeny blue photo, while at night they see things 7 times brighter than us.

Dogs have 40x more smell receptors than we do and Cats have 20x more than us.
We humans win the taste test department. We have approximately 9000 receptors that's why we can't eat dead mice...but Cats can because they have a lousy sense of taste, they only have 473 receptors. So don't waste your money on fancy catfood.
Dogs have a little better sense of taste than cats with 1000 taste receptors.

Either way they live in an olfactory world as opposed to our visualcentric universe. Cats can follow the trails of mice urine throughout your house as if it were a super highway. Mice can barely see anything past their noses so they pee everywhere and follow their nose around your house...is that gross or what?

Dogs of course discover their canine friends through checking out the unique smells produced by the scent glands that are located on their rear ends.

If you live in an olfactory world this makes perfect scents/sense..
to us it is just seems impolite and weird.

Dogs brains let them see the world at 80 frames per sec..unfortunately they can't watch TV with us because TV operates at 60 frames per second which is human speed. So Dogs just see jumpy cropped flickering blurry images...but of course they can hear it much better than us. Dogs can hear and recognise the exact hum of your car engine when you are approaching your home...that's why they run to the door..they aren't psychic.

Cats hear 3 times better than us and this allows them to hear the nearly blind mice squeaking to other mice as they scurry about the urine trails around your house!!!

Every Dog in the world has evolved from wolves some 100,000 years ago. Humans have accepted Dogs so well because they are pack animals and these developmentally retarded wolf puppies are perfectly suited to our needs.

The slobbery kiss that you get when you walk in the door is a submissive wolf trait. Many breeds have been bred with freeze frame hunting traits from wolves. Bloodhounds are stuck on Search...Border Collies are stuck at Chase....Pointers are stuck on Sighting..Retrievers are stuck on Catch..and we train a few breeds to go the next level of hunting which is attack.

Bad owners = bad dogs because they are desperately in need of training and securing their position in their pack.

I personally think that all humans should be required to pass a battery of tests, as involved as acquiring a driving license, before they are permitted to own a dog..but that's just me.

Of course purebred owners are hoping that geneticists can cure the disastrous side effects that their little frankensteinian creations suffer from because of the massive chromosonal corruption of inbreeding family members...in evolutionary terms they are all dead enders.

In the land of Pets it is reigning Cats n' Dogs. Although these familiar creatures live in a much different world and experience life on an alien scale..
we love them anyway.