Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus, and Dogs are from Pluto - Part 1

Seriously.  I know that may sound odd, but in the grand theory of the way things are, it is the only logical place for them to be from, if men are from Mars and women are from Venus.  I've never read the book this blog post refers to (seen here on Amazon.com) but one time when I was staying with my Aunt and having some deep conversation about something, she pulled her copy down from the bookshelf of "Men are from Mars, Women are from Venus" and showed me a section about men and hierarchy, as proof of whatever it was she was telling me.  

While I don't remember exactly what the book was saying, the concept of groups of any living thing having a hierarchy, or as a group of chickens might say, a 'pecking order', stuck with me.

Later in my life, as my two dogs got older, and I added more dogs, some old, some younger, I started to try to train and educate myself to be a good caretaker for my best friends. I started to feel I needed to pay attention to the hierarchy of the dog pack, and do what I could to support it and keep peace in the pack.  And let's admit it.  I had a favorite, and she was oldest, and she was the first, and I was not going to see her knocked to the bottom of the hierarchy rungs, not once I understood that there was a hierarchy.

Most of us have heard of the concept of 'the alpha dog', and that is not really what this is about, but I may blog about it at a later point in time.  No, this is about the possibility that there is a job and duty to help support and preserve the hierarcy of the pack, so there is peace at home and everybody is happy.  Or as happy as they can be, cause in my house, everybody wants to be NUMBER ONE in the pack pecking order.  That's just the way weiner dogs are.