Dog Would Sink Battleship®

Battleship® the movie was recently released.  I heard that the reviews were awful.  My personal opinion is they should sink this movie based on a board game and try again with other great board games.

I believe Monopoly® would make a great movie based on the lingering real estate market woes.  The movie would start by showing how there are all of these great properties available.  It would then show how many metal chotskies with cash flow issues buy these properties up, sometimes acquiring multiple properties at one time.  These chotskies would then try to resell the properties, or would build houses or hotels on these newly acquired properties.  The movie would finish with each of the chotskies running out of money, except for one.  I would definitely play the chotsky dog in this movie, leaving the other players to fight over the chotsky dirty shoe, which I would probably eat.

I believe Old Maid® would make a great movie based on everybody trying to avoid being stuck with the only person who is not a pair.  Everybody is meeting and matching, maybe doing some online dating, or It’s Just Lunches.  But, this one lady has no meets or matches and just kind of cruises through life.  She continually is being passed between people who are trying to avoid being stuck with her.  She may even have a lot of cats.  I probably could not star in this movie due to my dislike of cats.

I believe Fur-Ever Home®, The Animal Rescue Game would make a great animated movie based on animal rescue, and everybody working together to try to get all homeless animals into fur-ever homes.  I could star in this movie, in an animated kind of way.  I could then have my brother star in the movie with me, like many famous actors and actresses do.  The rescues would take us in, care for us, and adopt us out to loving homes.  There could be a love story between the two shelter operators, where at some point they merge and become one large rescue – saving more animals.  LOVE!! 

Battleship® is a great board game, or so it seems.  Scrabble® is a great board game, or so it seems.  I cannot play either of them with small playing pieces and no thumbs, but I can watch my parents play them.  They both seem awesome!  But, just because a board game is awesome does not mean the movie will be awesome.   Lesson learned, now time to sink Battleship® the movie.

~ Tyra

Dog Would Praise Mark Zuckerberg

I know too much about Mark Zuckerberg….

I know that he is really, really wealthy, as of this past week, and signed up to share at least 50% of this wealth to solve world problems through the Giving Pledge!  I know he started a company (The Facebook) years, and years ago, well maybe just over a dog year ago, that recently went public.  I know his company has changed how we live our day to day lives, as many people use Facebook every single day of their lives, sometimes using it to share things that never should be shared on a public web site. 

What is interesting, or so I hear from my parents, is that this website is totally free for day to day users.    Yes, I guess there is advertising that many businesses pay so they can directly target their customers based on the day to day user searches.  But, for the day to day users sharing way too much on a public website, it is totally free.

What is also interesting is how this free website can be used for doing good things in the world.  Although most are still using it to share way too much about themselves on a public website, and then getting mad when what they have shared on a public website is actually public, but I digress…

Think about it.  A short eight years ago, an animal rescue or shelter had local options to reach people.  They may have even had newsletters, email lists, web bulletin boards, etc. if they were a technically progressive rescue or shelter.  But, the reach was still small and mostly local.

Now, an animal rescue or shelter has Facebook to reach people across the globe immediately.  An animal rescue or shelter can take pictures or videos, and share them on their Facebook page.  Every person following this animal rescue or shelter then receives these pictures or videos.  This person then may share this picture or video to their “friends”.   Their “friends” may find this picture or video fun and interesting, and share it again.  Now, a picture or video of an animal awaiting a home in OH, has made its’ way to a person in CA.  The person is CA has friends in OH, since everybody has friends in OH.  They now message their friend in OH and say I know you have been looking for a pet, check out Meatball.  Meatball goes to a loving fur-ever home.  WOW!!!  And, one final thing, the person in OH who adopted Meatball, now becomes a fan of their local animal rescue or shelter and the cycle begins again.

I personally, as a rescued dog, want to thank Mark Zuckerberg for creating a free website that can be used for doing good things in the world, as described above.  I am just a dog from the animal rescue world, so this is the good thing I know.  But, my dog sense is that there are many other great causes out there that have gotten more support due to Mark’s idea and years of execution, that started in a Harvard dorm room – as many great ideas do. 

~ Tyra