Thinking About...

I know I at some point I will want to take this back, but right now I can't wait until the girls can speak.

We have a list going of all the words they can say at this point, Sadie is more verbal than her sister. Camille has learned to shake her head no, which is actually sort of helpful as I am constantly guessing what they want - it makes the narrowing down easier.

What I really want to know is what they think about, yet I tend to wonder about this with other living beings who can't communicate- like my dogs- and sometimes the chicken.

I know the pigs only think about food, eating food, finding food- its only one thought for them.

It seems as though the rabbits are preoccupied with fear, dwelling on all the things that could possibly kill them...which is pretty uninteresting, as a rabbit can be killed by almost anything.

Unfortunately, there has been quite a bit of rabbit murder here at 2107, so if the remaining rabbits are thinking rabbits, they actually should be preoccupied with their mortality.

Of all the animals the cats are by far the most clever, but I do think they take themselves to seriously.

Clearly the dogs have the best sense of humor, but I imagine they would be amused by slap stick- The Three Stooges- I Love Lucy- which I personally find felony annoying and without any real entertainment value, but it occurs to me the dogs lack the sophistication to enjoy a good Woody Allen movie ( editors note: the last really good Woody Allen move was Hannah and Her Sisters).

I have spent hours imagining what the animals I live with are thinking about...and now I spend inordinate amounts of time imagining what the babies I live with think about.

I can't wait to ask them and have them tell me. Until then I have been training them to think about what I think about...candy.