The Nose that Knows

Dehumanizing dogs

2006-02-08T04:39:00.000-08:00

You know, some human beings say that dog owners become like dogs they own (sic).

Looks like the other way round is also true. Human owners become like human beings they own.

I was so depressed when I saw this.

http://www.imemc.org/content/view/16519/79/

About a month ago, 12-year-old Mohammed Qassam was the victim of an Israeli army dog that grabbed his leg with its teeth and dragged him down two flights of stairs in his home in the Jenin refugee camp, in the middle of the night. This time it was Grandma Salha Al-Dik, 78, who was sleeping in her home when the soldiers sent out their dogs as part of a search for her wanted grandson, Rami. This week Al-Dik underwent the third operation on her arm, which refuses to heal.

"Bush terror."

To the extent that this phrase is a tautology (100 per cent, of course), I've long believed the phrase "Canine terror" is an oxymoron.

But it seems that I have to admit that sometimes it's not true.

Especially when we are close to some HBs like Adolf H., Joseph V. S. and George W. B.

Mmm.

Dog pets

2005-12-22T01:34:00.000-08:00

I've been sniffing the dog-bestseller titled Rating of Dog Pets, written by the late Dr. Arlow the Jack Russell. Here's her description of human beings as pets.

History

Human beings are part of the Homo, a subfamily of Hominidae. Hominidae is a family including Gorillas and Pans. Domestic HBs are derived by dogs' long history of domestication. Dogs exploited them for their own needs, such as to feed, tickle and wash. Particular characteristics were selected, which has resulted in the huge diversity of breeds today. However, many dogs regret that they have not paid much attention to inter-human aggressiveness, as in the long run the inter-human aggressiveness affects the wellbeing of dogs, as is currently exemplified by George W. Bush's mass killings of Iraqi people and dogs.

Life span

Ranges from 0-100 years, but the average lifespan is 50 to 80 years.

Behaviour in the wild

Simply stated, "weird," period, QED. They have no fur, which constitutes a huge inferiority complex, obviously. As a result, they often plunder other creatures' high-quality fur, very violently. The only species, it seems, that cannot control the right amount of food is another common characterisation of HBs by dogtellectuals.

Future prospects

Dire!

Mmm.

NK

Go Piggies and Hoggies!

2005-12-12T17:22:00.000-08:00

Hi there,

I was sniffing the net and found this at:

http://www.democracynow.org/article.pl?sid=05/11/24/0740243

An independent TV/Radio program hosted by somebody called Amy Goodman (NB: Though her name is "Goodman," I cannot guarantee that she's a 'man' or she's good, life is funny, eh?). In this program, the inteviewee called Jane Goodall (not "badalone") states:

You know, the sad thing: They don't want to know. When I try to explain how you have maybe five hens crushed into a tiny wire cage that size for their whole lives to lay eggs, how you have hens crushed in a room, doesn't matter how big it is, but falling over each other, trampling on dead bodies. Pigs -- and we know that pigs are at least as, and often more, intelligent than dogs. I mean, did you know pigs can actually use a computer? They can be taught to move a cursor with their snouts up and down and side to side and answer questions, and they are these amazingly intelligent animals. And I love pigs. And they're crammed -- they can't even turn around. They're in these tiny sties. And the pig, having her babies, the sow, is confined under a farrowing hoop so she can’t turn around, she can't even stand up very often. And the cows in the so-called animal food lots, in tiny yards, forced to stand often under the hot sun on baked ground or in the mud mixed with feces.

You see or sniff? "Pigs -- and we know that pigs are at least as, and often more, intelligent than dogs..." Mmm, to the extent that this "Goodall" person is ready to accept that dogs and pigs are at least as, and quite often more, intelligent than human beings, I've got half a mind to agree to her.

Anyway, what I want to remind you of is the hellish conditions which brutal human beings put other animals into.

NK

She nose ......

2005-11-11T20:26:00.000-08:00

I've just been net-sniffing and found this. I can sniff that she nose a lot!

Very heart warming and nose moistening, innit?

Hope some of you can read Japanese or sniff like me. This photo comes from this page. I can imagine that there are a few decent human beings that I'd rather want to own.

Cheers
NK

I would probably have to say...

2005-11-01T05:12:00.000-08:00

Well, she's my friend. A nice old lady, but ...

I would probably have to say this nose dosn't know well... but at least unlike Dubya, she'll do no harm to others. So how about choosing her for the president of the United States?

As we say, this time at last, you would probably be able to say...

Dog sniff America

Instead of fanatically shouting

God Bless Amerikka

Woudn't it be much better than keep being the world largest serial killer?

Cheers.

Me

2005-10-08T17:47:00.000-07:00

I've got a few requests from sniffers of my blog to make my photo open. Now that blogspot can accept some photos, here you go.

I'm back

2005-10-08T17:33:00.000-07:00

Hi, all. I've been sniffing from Paris through Siberia to Seoul and I haven't had time to post what I've sniffed on the way for a long time.

On the way to Seoul, I just passed through North Korea. There my colleagues are in a rather bad condition.

Many of the good-willed misinformed HBs (human beings) think that "oh, I can imagine" or something like that, which is not hugely incorrect. However, from the point of smell of dogs like me, the situation is not that simple. Not that my friends in North Korea are rather happy, but that there are so many, in fact too many, Subaltern dogs in supposedly dog-loving human world like Paris.

You know, many HBs dump dogs before the summer vacation, and those dogs are then hunted by the "authority" to whom we have never given any authorities. Not as far as I recall. Also in Japan, some 500,000 dogs and cats are summarily executed just because they're enjoying a free walk.

Meanwhile, there are funny news like this:

http://news.independent.co.uk/uk/this_britain/article300542.ece

Sniff you in a while.

NK

I don't like you coz...

2005-06-07T06:15:00.000-07:00

Long time everybody. I've been busy sniffing parks in France.

Saw this?

It's from Flicker. It seems the photographer is an HB, but does rather understand what we dogs feel...

It says:

I don't like you because you have the dog-damn camera

Well, dog-damn alright.

NK

Fair trade month

2005-05-21T02:33:00.000-07:00

Hi there,

This is NoseKnows. I heard from an HB friend that May is the world fair trade month. So stop buying craps of mass production (CMP: many of which depends on sweatshops in developing countries), try to buy decent products (if "decent products by HBs" is not an oxymoron).

Also, if you seriously want to think of a fair relation between us dogs and HBs, check this out!

NK

No shit here! or Do shit here!

2005-05-02T05:04:00.000-07:00

Hi there,

An interesting fact. The difference beween "No shit here" and "Do shit here" is in fact minimal, "N" and "D". What a distinctive feature!

The other day I posted an intriguing sign in Tokyo, which sniffs...

Don't Unko

which seems to mean "shit prohibited here". I sniff-img-src it here:

Wowvow! Magggggggggnificient! But it sniffs more like "Do shit here!".

In contrast,

This and this looks rather sensible ... I guess, at least for HBs.

Oops, I img-src them here:

Sensible, to some extent, though they, when juxtaposed, inevitably remind us of Wittegenstein's famous thought-experiment on the simple language... Does the first sign, for us aesthetically-minded creatures, not mean that one should not shit here with your back kept straight??? Does the second sign not say you should not shit here with your back curled?

What is more, beware (BTW, earthenware and beware are not sisters, though they're supposed to be two children of "ware"), do not forget we check things by sniffing rather than reading ... From that point of view, these two signs show-sniff double-binding messages (sniffy message smells that here's really shittable, like all the roads and public and private spaces in France).

NK

A dog in solidarity with Kurdish refugees from Turkey

2005-05-01T02:13:00.000-07:00

Check this out and sniff it up...

Just quickly, as I'm busy in the wake of finding out a new and exciting cafe in Melbourne...

Know this lovely (pronounce it like Brits)? Guess what she's doin'...

If you can read Japanese, you can acess here and find out what she's doing yourself.

If you cannot read Japanese, well she's raising fund for helping Kurdish refugees by carrying bandannas and selling them to passers-by. Doesn't she smell lovely?

NoseKnows

When you look into the abyss...

2005-04-28T08:26:00.000-07:00

Hi there, just sniff this:

http://flickr.com/photos/sweetheart58/10517707/

For lazy HBs, I img-src sniff the photo part:

Does this not smell the warning by Nietzsche (or Neeche, yes, Friedrich Wilhelm)? It's like beware, when you look into the abyss, the abyss also looks at you.

Perhaps, for most of you who's sight-centric (we can see, with all these highly-self-adulated-information-technology sniffin' communication is yet to come), it looks like they're fighting or intimidating each other by exposing their teeth (and, alas, gum), maybe just playing...

I cannot, however, keep sniffing this as a checking of breath... "Darling, do I have a bad breath today? Can you sniff?" sniff sniff sniff.. "Ohya, Dubya, darling, it smells excellent, how about mine?" sniff sniff snifffff "Staggering, I feel like melting ..."

What a wonderful world ...

NoseKnows

Let's join us!

2005-04-21T06:37:00.000-07:00

Such is the English I sniffed the other day in Tokyo, one of the walk festival organised by a municipal government. First, of course, I thought that it's written by Dubya, as he talks something resenbling to this with a flavour of criminality, e.g.

"Let's join our fight against terrorism"

meaning let's terrorise people all over the world...

Anyway, today's topic is completely different from this. If you can understand Japanese, you'll find it immensely amusing ...

http://www.flickr.com/photos/mooisaw/9097732/

It sniffs "don't unko" ("don't excrement"). Ummmm......

Unfortunately, if you cannot read (like Dubya) it looks more like "do shit here".

Bowbaw vowvaw...

"Wantan"

2005-04-17T01:11:00.000-07:00

Hi there,

If, just in case, you can sniff (or read, if you are an HB) Japanese, I strongly recommend to check this page:

http://www.howtoeigo.net/wantan.html

A quintessential Japanese nonsense "snobbism" that is praised so much by such folks as Barthes ...

Here's some analytical sniffing (though any sniffing, being a transcendential action that integrates and goes beyond the mediocre cycle of analysis and synthesis, involves analytical elements in it) for those who cannot sniff or speak Japanese (like Dubya).

"Wantan" stands for "wan" ("baw" or "vow": some sort of barking sound made by us, though "vow" in standard English has different meaning) plus "tan" ("tan" is an cute abbreviation of "tango" or "tango-syu" adopted here).

The concept seems to be: "Let's master English in easy form with examples joyfully illustrated by cute dogs". I can put is simply: Rubbish, QED.

You know the speech baloon in red at the toppage of this website sniffs:

I can do (master English) with this sort of joyful word-list.

French has a nice word to express this: PATHETIQUE (accent symbols omitted).

Oui, c'est pathetique

with accoustic emphasis on "pa"!

Well of course you may say that English also has a word that's similar, i.e. "pathetic" but this does not fit quite as good as French "pathetique" to describe this sheer "Wantan" crap.

As if dogs are less intelligent than HBs (and this comes from JAPAN! One of an extremely few nations that cheerfully follow the criminal command of the Dubya the ape! ---- and by doing so having shown clearly their intellectual level! Oui, c'est vraiment pathetique!).

Ooi, Japanese HBs, you OK?

It's smart to stay active

2005-04-03T00:42:00.000-08:00

It's an old story in the Sydney Morning Herald, an Aussie newspaper, on 20 Jan, 2005. The website I sniffed was:
http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2005/01/19/1106110814323.html
but not sure whether it's still there or not.

Apart from various species-centric expressions like: "Man's best friend", which accidentally is true for man (and woman) but the other way round is not necessarily true (as the law of logic dictates); or "Beagles given the fortified diet ..." while the fact is that Beagles allow human beings (HBs) to give them fortified diet, etc. this story has some funny elements. The first paragraph goes:

Exercise and a diet fortified with vitamins, fruits and vegetables helped older dogs learn new tricks and kept them spry, in an experiment scientists said could teach humans a thing or two.

Meaning you shouldn't keep eating and/or drinking such craps as MacDonald's or Burger King or Starbacks or Coke. Anyway, here it goes:

Beagles given the fortified diet, regular exercise or both did much better in learning new tricks than dogs fed regular food and allowed to lie around more, the researchers reported this week.

This part sounds like a bit of propaganda, coz, in fact, there's no correlation between fortified diet plus regular exercise and ability of learning. It's just that dogs are so clever that they sniff what HBs want and behave in accordance with their expectations. Also, I guess perhaps Americans should lie around more instead of attacking and killing people all over the world and inventing toxic and lethal materials. Anyway...

Dogs are similar to humans in their dietary needs and the way they digest food, so the findings have implications for people, said Molly Wagster of the US National Institute on Ageing, which funded the study. Dogs also can develop memory and learning problems as they age in much the same way people do. "This research brings a note of optimism that there are things that we can do that may significantly improve our cognitive health," Dr Wagster said.

I am a bit suspicious about this. Firstly, the fact that Americans tend to eat and drink craps (e.g. MacDonald's and/or Burger King and/or Starbucks and/or Coke) and they are very forgetful (regular poll shows that an average American believes that US army killed in total roughly 100,000 Vietnamese during the invasion of Vietnam (it's like claiming only about 100 people were killed in the attack of World Trade Center in NY on 11 September 2001) fits nicely to this claim. On the other hand, I guess this American forgetfulness is nothing to do with "develop(ing) memory and learning problems as they AGE".

Not eating crappy food is important of course (and many crappy food and drink companies are doing a lot of oppressive things in various places, like Coke.

Anyway, I'm suffering from hay fever and cannot sniff properly now, so I stop here. Sorry about this.

Bestiality Cliche?

2005-03-08T04:49:00.000-08:00

Long time since I last posted here. I've been busy sniffing around in Paris and London. Yes, Paris was much more dogane (should be understood in analogy with "humane"), with a lot of nice dog smells.

Anyway, this time sex story, not mine but from what I recently sniffed at The Top 10 Cliches of alt.sex.stories. Some of them are perhaps outrageous for many HBs (NB: "human beings" not "hairy bum"). But sniff down (or scroll down if you're a HB) and see "Bestiality Cliche".

I cite one rather correct comment:

Or, in yet another classic, it is the bitch who clamps down and locks a man into her. Sorry folks. It happens with women but not bitches.

Yes, that's completely right as far as true bitches are concerned. But in the world of HBs, I would probably sniff it'd be fairer to say "It happens with women but much more frequently with men." Many bastards clamp down and lock a woman into them.

See and sniff you soon, hopefully...

Rogue and Lawless

2005-01-19T03:53:00.000-08:00

I heard from a friend about a story of a forced deportation by Japanese immigration of the Kurdish asylum seekers. What's incredible and insniffible is: (1) those who were forced back are given the "mandate refugee" status by UNHCR and (2) they are deported the next day after they're "arrested" by Japanese immigration office.

I can safely call this Japanese government behaviour ROGUE and LAWLESS.

A spokesman at UNHCR headquaters in Geneva protested Tokyo's move:

"UNHCR is deeply concerned over Japan's unprecedented deportation of two Turkish Kurds recognized as refugees under UNHCR's statute," UNHCR spokesman Ron Redmond told the AP. "They were deported to Turkey on Tuesday, today, despite last-minute appeals by UNHCR and human rights groups."

The deportation was "contrary to Japan's obligations under international law," and contrasts sharply with Japan's humanitarian assistance for refugees and disaster victims abroad, the refugee agency added in a statement.

Yes, it's violating "JAPAN'S OBLIGATIONS UNDER INTERNATIONAL LAW."

Yes, I know that recently I post so many political staff, but after all whenever I sniff the world, I mean human world, it smells rogue and lawless and killings and all these criminal things that dogs never do naturally.

Related information is here (both English and Japanese though you cannot sniff that).

I repeat this smell again: it's unprecedented and it smells rogue and lawless and criminal. Of course you cannot expect much from the government called "Japanese government," which is widely held to be the disguised form of Bush's franchise branch.

Want to do something? Dogs, just sniff and bark or talk to your pet HBs so that they do something. Human beings, you can send letters to UNHCR from here.

You need more info? Please relead the above info linked from here.

Also here has good info (though you cannot sniff it either unfortunately).

For another information page in Japanese, see here. I'm sniffing the resurgence of Adolf Eichmann in Japanese rogue beaurocracy.

Japanischeland Uber alles in der Rogue welt.

Bowvowbawvaw,
Noseknows

Sad and Twisted

2005-01-06T06:20:00.000-08:00

Hi there,

A friend of mine living in what human beings (HBs) call Australia sent me info about this article:

"That dog dragged me out"

Near Pondicherry (you know where it is? In Asia, India, if my nose serves me right). When Tsunami attacked there. Here's the first few paras from the article:

"Run away!" the husband screamed from a rooftop after he spotted the colossal waves.

His wife Sangeeta grabbed her two youngest sons and hoped that the third and oldest - 7-year-old Dinakaran - would outrun the tsunami churning toward her home.

But Dinakaran didn't follow. He headed for the safest place he knew, the small family hut just 40 metres from the seashore.

Sangeeta thought she would never see him again. But he was saved by the family dog.

While water lapped at Sangeeta's heels as she rushed up a hill, the scruffy dog named Selvakumar ducked into the hut after Dinakaran.

Nipping and nudging, he did everything in his canine power to get the boy up the hill.

Selvakumar is then described as:

Selvakumar looks pretty much like every other dog in the village.

In a sense, he's a hero. GO!

But this word immediately reminds me of a saying: "the world without a hero is a sad world, but the world that needs a hero is a sadder." (sad-sadder-sadist?)

Oui, exactement! Si, exactamente!

The article continues: "Most days, the dog escorts Dinakaran to and from school, spending the rest of the day playing with the other two boys, or begging for food."
So the point is, and I know this perfectly well myself, Selvakumar did exactly (or exactement or exactamente) the same as he does every day.

Is it not wonderful, that his natural behaviour saved the boy?

Compare this with Dubya the ape, the criminal ape who ordered to kill tens of thousands in Iraq, using US soldiers as something disposable. He takes a pose (which is hard to see without getting pissed, let alone sniff) and makes a propaganda statement full of rubbish and nonsense and lies and fantasies wrapped with such catchy words as "democracy" or "freedom" and keep killing people and letting US solders commit war crimes and letting them die as well.

While Selvakumar just play with kids naturally and saved them.

The point: to think saving life is heroic can be used in a very twisted way, as it may well indicate that to KILL life become the baseline normality. This is happening in some part of the HB world, like in US or in Japan.

Now, Selvakumar who saved the boy's life is treated as a hero, something special and exceptional. Yes, he did a great job in retrospect though he just did it naturally (and I'm sure he'd prefer a bit of a smelly socks than a gold medal for his behaviour). But is the fact that the act of saving life is regarded as special can easily turn into the situation where the will to save life, which should be normal, is regarded as something special and something that the society requires explanation. The other side of this could be the act of killing is regarded as normal and does not require explanation.

So yes, girls and boys, be anxious! The twisted world is approaching (or in some part already around you).

BTW, if you want to donate for relief in Aceh, access http://www.etan.org/.

Unhappy New Year...

2005-01-02T18:16:00.000-08:00

Hi everybody,

Unhappy new year (though some of my friends in Japan had a happy new year coz there was snow which they love). Four more years of Dubya the ape, big quake and tsunami and more killings of human beings and dogs in Iraq and in Palestine.

Just a bit of scattered topics. You know, the human victims of the quake and tsunami, at least at the first stage, are disproportionally higher than other animals. This seems to confirm that most animals can sense the quake in advance. Yes, we can... to some extent. But many doggies just could not escape, due to transportation and logistic problems.

BTW, some NoseKnowses for cheering you up in this depressing new year.

Note: these photos are randomely taken from other "people's" blogs but I sniffed the permission to link to them directly from dogs, in solidarity!

Yes, Nose Knows

Hmm, Nose Knows?

Wow, Nose No Knows...

Human beings, did you enjoy them and are you amused (we say "are you enjoyed" but that's a different matter). If you enjoy them, BEWARE, that means you are a bit brainwashed and prejudiced, as I deliberately chose the captions that appeals to the vulgar sentiment and cliche that human beings have against dogs. Enjoying the matching of these captions and photos is like enjoy talking about bimbos and himbos...

Your noses respectfully,
NoseKnows

Bum or Bomb ...

2004-12-24T06:26:00.000-08:00

At first, I thought it's "bum-sniffing". Fair enough. We love that, just like Germans. But it turned out to be "bomb-sniffing". So shocking that it took me a while to write about this.

It's a few weeks ago when I sniffed an article at:
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20041207/ap_on_re_mi_ea/israel_palestinians_6
I'm afraid the original article is no more there, as time passed by since then.

The article said:

Hamas claimed its men dug a tunnel to booby-trap a chicken coop, then lured troops to the area with the help of a double agent and exploded the bomb, killing an Israeli and his bomb-sniffing dog.

Israel TV reported the dog triggered the bomb, killing the soldier and two Palestinians guarding the entrance to the tunnel. The TV report said the tunnel was dug in the direction of the nearby Israeli border fence and was apparently designed to allow Palestinian attackers to cross into Israel.

Don't know what to say about this. I know that Israel illegaly occupies the Palestinian territory and killing innocent civilians, and Palestinians sporadically use suicide bombing to attack back. Very bad.

But bomb-sniffing dog.... I'm sure she or he was loyal to the task, without knowing anything, without being told. Just think of it. A complete abuse of dogs, for military aim, for maintaining the illegal occupation and oppressing people.

Also a while ago, Swiss mountain rescue dogs (yes, that's St. Bernard, i.e. Saint) retired their job (replaced by high-tech rescue machines). Then what? Dogs are hired as a company to the dirty work such as illegal occupation?

Sorry I'm rather depressed now...

MBA for Sale, Any Species Welcome!

2004-12-10T15:45:00.000-08:00

You sniffed? An online school that gave cat an MBA is sued! VOWWOW (for those who have not studied language properly, human English speakers tend to think we bark BAW or something like that, but it's completely wrong; you can see that it's wrong simply by seeing how human Japanese speakers hear our barking, they think it's WAN and the first consonant W, which is in fact closer to V than B, is closer to what we say, so we say VOW and it's too bad that English already has a word "vow" but that's none of our business; you cannot blame Japanese KUMA (bear) means something else in Swahili)!

Anyvow, it says "The Pennsylvania attorney general's office Monday sued an online university for allegedly selling bogus academic degrees - including an MBA awarded to a cat." The "uni" is Trinity Southern University in Texas (yes, Texas, can you sniff it?)

At the beginning of this blog, I proposed the possibility of electing (not selecting, which is what Americans did when Bush became a president) a nice and clean Golden retriever. So why not MBA to cats? Though we've never been in fully romantic relationships with cats, I think it's very reasonable for the following reasons:

Firstly, many cats are as intelligent as ---- if not less (oops, I mean "more" as I'm currently learning diplomatic use of language) ---- human beings. As long as cats can afford MBA, it looks perfectly alright. After all, MBA is an all crappy shit (NB: I'm inclined to use "perfume" but then some human beings might misunderstand what I mean so I fit myself into the human communication mode).
Second, most cats are cleaner than human beings, and this will be the case even for cats with MBA, as most human beings with MBA are in general dirty criminals who, alas, worse still, are quite happy to let themselves enslaved in wearing "suits" (which never suits them) and exploit other creatures.
Third ---- though this needs confirmation ---- unlike dogs world where there's a degree up to "Dogtor of Philosophy" (fortunately we don't have Academie Doguese), cats world does not have something like this. So plethora of cats "philosophe" who hope to make their living by writing need to use human beings title selling system.

In a nutshell, it is expected that cats with MBA do much less harm (though they may eat more ham) than HBs with MBA. Given that MBA is for sale for HBs, why not for cats?

BTW, Trinity Southern University website is:

http://www.trinitysouthernuniversity.org

It's "trinity" southern, so some officers at the University (with no cultural literacy) may have thought that this "trinity" means HBs, cats and criminals.

Yours respectfully,
NoseKnows

Panda! Downside Up!

2004-12-02T17:10:00.000-08:00

Hi there, long time... in this wrong time.

Did you sniff this? "Panda handstand makes its mark" from world renowned BBC! It says:

Pandas can adopt four distinct postures to deposit scent, with probably the strangest being the handstand.

Hmmmm, they should learn a little bit more how to sniff the posture. Just as we say:

Toes to toes, nose goes,
Nose to nose, toes go

Know what? I tell you. It's a posture of resistance, expressing their disgust to the world downside up (or for some human-centric people it'd be easier to understand if I bark "upside down").

Yes, that's right. As I sniff-xpected in the previous post "Fish rights and human wrongs," the world is becoming more and more twisted, to the extent that not killing human beings or animals is not any more something normal, but killing human beings by Napalm is regarded as normal, and as something that can be sold if that Napalm is environmentally "friendly" (see Fallujah Napalm, a deadly cynicism).

Thusly, here we have sundry animals who demonstrate their feeling of disgust towards this human-defined downside-uppy world by standing on their hands (or front paws). Do you understand it?

So BBC was slightly-more-than-half wrong in its interpretation of this rare bears engagement in some "gymnastics."

Suspicious? You can sniff-check the "mark" they made by handstand. It smells one of the deepest criticisms towards the status-quo of the human world, which is full of carnages (as what US is doing in Iraq) and hypocrisies aka "we care for fish" (and they cannot even make the word "fish" plural) or "our new Napalm is environmentaly friendly."

HBs, how about you joining us in walking downside up? This world is worth it.

Yours respectfully,
NoseKnows

Fish rights or human wrongs?

2004-11-22T06:04:00.000-08:00

There's something I'd very much love to say about new Google service in relation to a letter I recently received. But for now I don't have enough nose to talk about that. So this time about fish rights! Go go fish rights! Sniff 'em!

An AP article dated November 18, 2004 said: "Animal-rights activists have launched a campaign arguing that fish are intelligent, sensitive animals no more deserving of being eaten than a pet dog or cat". I've got half a nose to agree with this, but only depending on how the baseline is set.

Is it possible that this argument implies something like "human-wrongs activists can theoretically launch a campaign arguing that human beings (as is typically shown by Dubya) are non-intelligent, a-sensitive animals ......"?

Anyway, one thing I agree with these "activists" is that compared to some dumb human beings, YES OF COURSE, fish are intelligent; there's no doubt about that.

H.O.W.E.V.E.R...... is it not wise to ask what kind of human beings are those animal-rights activists? Or more generally, what can this ultra-altruism mean in reality? I cannot help sniffing something nasty in it, though I do not doubt their self-assigned "sincerity". (But was it not David Hume who clearly said that "consciousness" and "perception/recognition" are completely different? and is it not the case that somebody who has a strong self-consciousness of being altruistic is not necessarily recognised as altruistic at all?)

The starting point, Fish Empathy Project webpage is here. It says: "No one would ever put a hook through a dog's or cat's mouth." "Once people start to understand that fish, although they come in different packaging, are just as intelligent, they'll stop eating them."

Sincerely, I sniff it great. At the same time, I sniff in it something very alarming. Are they not citizens of the United States of America whose boss Dubya is responsible for criminal inhumane and inanimal acts in Iraq? We know that US marines and troops are torturing, raping and killing innocent Iraqi civilians.

Now we have an old saying (well to be more precise, old sniffing) in Dogworld:

Never believe in those who are not decent and kind to others of the same species, even if they believe they behave decently and kindly to other species.

Yes, that's why these fish-altruisters smell strangely.

You think you spot contradictions in this argument? As ---- after all ---- I introduced before the campaign "She needs her fur more than you do"? If you could distinguish different levels of concepts properly, you'd find there's no contradiction here. Details later, when I recover from my flu (which makes me a bit dull as I cannot sniff as nicely and elegantly as normal).

In addition to this argument, I think it's time to change the discours (pronounce this as the French do). Instead of human beings talking about other species, it's time, in fact it's high time, that we talk about human beings.

Here again, we come back to the original question: are human beings in general as intelligent and decent as dogs, cats or fish?

Worth asking, worth sniffing and worth scratching.

With sweet love and wet lick,
NoseKnows

The Nose Knows, Rather Too Well ...

2004-11-19T04:38:00.000-08:00

On 17 November, BBC featured an article about the 4th World Toilet Summit. The summit opened in Beijing with declarations that having a loo is a human right.

Can sniff the smell? Yet another species-centrism, innit? There's a lot to say about this "problem" (allegedly). For now, I just say having a loo is a dog right as well. And cat right (if I may). The point is that having a good loo for human beings (henceforth HB, not hairy bum but human being, beware!) tends to have negative correlation with dog & cat loo right.

Take Japan, widely held to be one of the most advanced toilet-oriented countries (there are many homeless people, and administration does not provide houses but it provides at least some toilets for use). A 10 minutes walk will show you some weird thing, i.e. a line of "PET bottles" full of water (normally 2 litre bottle) put around houses, walls, etc (and this is disgustingly dirty, but Japanese does not have much sense of aethetics as is clearly shown by electric poles and lines). For what? You wonder?

It is said (allegedly) that PET bottles prevent cats from peeing. Waou and niaou! I'd like to ask these human beings who keep inventing rubbish (like governments). Did you try that? In toilet-training of your beloved (but rather empty-headed) kids? Try, go ahead. They'll shit on it, I'm reasonably sure. A friend of a friend of mine has a pet HB woman who's spiderphobia and one day she saw a spider in the toilet and she decided to piss in the 2 litre PET bottle, cutting off the neck. Long live pee-preventing PET bottles!

There's a country called France (I mean HB country), which also shows this correlation (but in a completely opposite way). It seems they love our shit (but not in the same sense as Germans do, of course); It's everywhere (if a singular thing can be everywhere at all). Everywhere is our toilet. France is a toilet heaven for dogs. However, it's also widely known for its poor toilet condition for HBs (again human being, I'm not talking about a toilet from inside which some ghost hand comes out and pull all the hair in your Hairy Bum).

Anyway, this implies that the following assumption can be formulated reasonably, for further in-depth (but not in the toilet bowl) examination:

Good toilet conditions for dogs means bad toilet conditions for HB.

Empirical data most welcome, from all over the world, both from --- but not limited to --- HBs and dogs.

Cheers,
NoseKnows

Don't Call Him Bush's Petdog

2004-11-15T04:30:00.000-08:00

Saw this disgusting photo? The right side one, so-called Japanese Prime Minister Koizumi, is widely called "Bush's PetDog No. 2" (The No. 1 Honor went to ---- YES! ---- your beloved Tony Blair!).

If you want to know what this photo means, please refer to this blog (Further down, you can find this disgusting photo).

日本語は、こちら。

Being a dog, I hereby declare, on behalf of the World Council of Dogs, that

We firmly insist that human beings should not call criminal pets of the criminal ape the Dubya a "dog".
We firmly insist that they should be correctly called "war criminals" and their "ass likcers".
We dogs are not criminals. In fact, we harshly reject any discourse which revolves around criminality of dogs, especially given by human beings. What should be asked is: are human beings criminals? ANSWER: at least some of them are, as is clearly shown by GWB the war criminal.
We declare QED here.

You know, Sau-shi (a part of Taoism). You can find what I mean by "ass likcers" (though the original are talking about "haemorrhoid lickers").

Dogs' and Cats' Fur in Japan

2004-11-08T16:15:00.000-08:00

About two months ago, I worte a memo titled "She needs her fur".

Got new info about dog fur and cat fur in Japan. According to JAVA (Japan Anti-Vivisection Association) News No. 74 (Autumn 2004), not only minks, foxes and rabbits, but also dogs and cats are "processed" for taking fur.

I have to be a bit more precise. JAVA News says, quoting a courageous Japanese fur trader's word, "Dogs and cats fur is used for hood, collar trimming and small items rather than coats" and "cats fur is processed in Greece, which is traded under the fake names such as 'Cyprus cat'".

A Chinese company which is trading dog and cat fur has a website, in which Japan, South Korea, North America, Europe, etc. are indicated as trading partners.

For details (perhaps), refer to JAVA website (in Japanese).

In addition, in Japan there's no regulation that enforces the indication of whose fur is used.

NB: I'm in no sense implying that taking fur from dogs and cats is worse than taking fur from foxes, minks and rabbits.

Unlike human beings, who seem to have crude but removable fur (sometimes taken from other animals), our fur cannot be removed. Removal means death.

So I repeat here again,
"SHE NEEDS HER FUR MORE THAN YOU DO".

Or is it useless? After all, Americans (not all, but at least those who support the new wave Ape the Dubya) seems to have decided to throw away "all pretence of civilisation" and humanity (if only they had a bit of dog-ness and doglisation!).

The Brainy Beak that Pecks

2004-11-02T16:12:00.000-08:00

A story from a friend of mine.

Did you know that a few years ago Tokyo prefectual government decided to adopt the garbage bag consisting of a material that contains at least 30 per cent calcium carbonate --- to see through inside so that different types of garbages are properly divided while at the same time minimise the emission of harmful substances while burning them. This makes the bag semi-transparent, for crows, dogs and human beings alike (though we do not really see-through, we sniff-through).

Now our brainy comrades with beaks can see precisely what's inside (not what's in store) the garbage bag and peck the bag to make optimise their food obtaining
activities. Aren't they clever?

They're shiny and nicely dark (see more).

Incidentally we can make good frends. The friend of mine who told me let her crow friend bathe in her water bawl. Transspecies friendship (friendship is not a kind of ship).

The number of crows are growing in Tokyo, while the number of new-born human babies are in decrease in Japan. The reason? As with human beings, it's obvious. The government does nothing whatsoever to make life with babies easier while keeps
showting the "family value" (reminiscent of fundamentalist Christians). What the f*ck, heck and neck is that?

So ridiculous. And instead of making kindergardens, the social system of maternel and paternel leave, enhance social welfare, etc. it's so blatantly clear that
politicians'd say "oh it's self-responsibility". Many people recognise what's in
store: confiscation of their kids to the war of agression...

Well, brainy beaks. The numbers're growing. The head of Tokyo prefectural government (a right-wing xenophobic wimp called Ishihara, who does nothing more than to agitate wimps) thus proposed once: "let's make a hamburger out of crow meat and sell them at McDonalds (a good match)!

Anyway, recently a company developed a yellowish garbage bag which is transparent for human beings but which crows cannot see through.

Do they assume brainy beaks are like brainless human beings?

Let's see.

The Nose that Pixes

2004-10-31T17:48:00.000-08:00

Saw this?

Let your dog take pix (not "take piss", VOW!), from highly respected "Japan Today" website. The article starts with:

Have you ever wondered how your dog sees the world?

A few comments should be immediately made.

Firstly, those who have the audacity to talk about "your dog" (a dog being YOURS, are you a stalker?) can never cognise the world the dogs "see." It's like Americans, who cannot see anything about the world and wondered "why they hate us?" World people and dogs do not hate Americans (as you can easily see that dogs living in the place called USA by human-beings are not discriminated nor hated); they just hate American policy. If somebody is brainwashed enough to mix these two COMPLETELY different categories (i.e. Americans and U.S. policy), too bad. They should learn dogs way of seeing the world. The problem of course is that those who have the audacity to talk about "your dog" cannot easily understand the dogs way of seeing the world, as they tend to be unconsciously (and thus infinitely) self-sentric.

Second --- which is closely related to the first point ---, dogs in general see less than they sniff. So, to be interested in "how dogs see the world" is, from the very beginning, very human-centric, which indicates that whatever the effect of this dog camera human beings just project what they think into pixs. Then why bother? Just look at the mirror and say, "Great me, I love you!"

Third --- closely related to the first and second ---, we should rather be talking about: under what conditions can we talk commonly about "the world" when our lifestyles and languages and perceptions and ... are so completely different? (Recall Wittgenstein and, in this matter, Kripke's interpretation of Wittgenstein.)

A bit of hope on the side of human beings... I found an witty comment on this article (down in the same page):

"Now what would be really interesting would be some device that allowed humans to experience a dog's olfactory world"

The marketing tagline could be "Wanna smell like a dog?"

And I sniff "yes, you smell wonderful tonite."

The Nose that Opens ...

2004-10-22T05:40:00.000-07:00

Hi there, long time...

It's an old news (BBC Oct 4). An intelligent nose let himself out of his kennel and let his mates out as well, for regular midnight feasts.

His name is Red, a south London animal shelter dweller. He used not only his nose but also teeth to open his kennel, and then release "his favorite canine companions" (Bow! Cool!).

Unfortunately, instead of talking with Red for the future form of fiesta, the kennel manager decided to put Red in "more secure" kennel.

Heart (and nose) warming story (though it's not a good sign for us to have warm nose).

Rumsfailed T-shirts for us?

2004-10-07T16:44:00.000-07:00

Saw this? Yes, it's Rumsfailed dog T-shirts. Only $13.99, with 100% ring spun cotton with the figure of spineless liar's image on top.

Some of my friends sniffed "no thank you" but some are seriously thinking of their human maid to purchase it, as it has nice message (though with badly stinking face).

BBC newssite smells whole lot of "Iraq didn't have WMD," "The failure of intelligence" etc. etc.

Vow! snif sniff and wow!

Strange, at least from the point of view of literate (I mean noserate) dogs.

In the dog world at least (don't know in human so-called-democracy-but-actually-looks-more-like-more-than-half-money-dictatorship), whether one dogdom owns WMD or not does not constitute a legitimate reason for launching a massive war of agression to that dogdom in the first place. When one dogdom, say A, that owns whole lot of WMD, CLAIMS that another dogdom, B, owns WMD? Nonsense. We would most certainly request inspections on WMDs owned by A.

This is very dogical, at least if we properly assume, as living in a dogsiety consisting of modern independent dogs, to keep the principle that rules should apply equally to all parties concerned.

Interesting still (to my nose but may not be to human brain(-lessness)), I think BBCs and other "media" brigates should be, if they identify themselves as "media," talking not about "the failure of intelligence" but about "the massive success of spinless criminal lies and propaganda".

A few years ago, we had ---- near the dogdom I live in ---- a heinous d/gang group. You know what they did? First they spotted somedoggy who's bad in a neibouring dogdom, then claimed, using propaganda machine fully, that the dogdom had some harmful staff to dogs, and attacked that dogdom and sniffed and ate everthing that dogdom had.

We now know fully that the attacked dogdom didn't have anything harmful, but we also know that that's not the point. So we checked the gang and prosecuted the boss by dogriminal law. The point to be made here was nothing to do with who were the attacked and what the attacked had, it's everything to do with the criminarity of the attackers.

Oops, going back to the original sniffpoint: in the process of prosecution, the gang group boasted "the specutacular success of the propaganda". Though I didn't like the d/gang group, I sort of like their honesty ---- instead of sneakily and cowardly and fakely talking about "the failure of intelligence" (in case of BBC pronounced nicely with their chin pulled back and put their nose as far as possible to their front, NB: Americans, try! and you'll find BBC English is now yours!) at least the d/gang group talked about what it actually is, i.e. the success of lies and propaganda.

That's why I rather believe that dogs are more noble than human beings ---- well most of the time, not when they are dwabbing ----.

Pet washer

2004-09-30T07:34:00.000-07:00

English Below

にほんごがあまり慣れてないけど、にほんの話なので、まずにほんごで。

「ペット」の丸洗い機「LAvAKAN」がにほんで発売中ということ。http://marunaka.jan-jan.net/index.php

仕様がふるってる。

ペットが心地よく洗浄から乾燥まで使えるよう温度管理が出来ています。
洗浄室内の空気は常に新しく入れ替えられています。
ワンサイクル終ると洗浄室内の洗浄と消毒が自動的に行われます。
プログラム数が多いのでペットに合ったモードが選択できます。
洗浄中、もしくは乾燥中ドアが開いたら、安全のため自動的に運転は止まります。
スイッチはタッチパネル式。

というわけで、指があんまりない私たちも、手と鼻でそうさできるよう、タッチパネル式、ちゅーわけ。

しかも、私たち犬が飼っているペットの８７％を占める人間はきたないから、いつも空気はあたらしく、だって。

ＦＡＱはこちら。

「シャンプーが目に入ったりすることないですか？」

「「アナリティツクバル社」に製作依頼し完成された専用シャンプーは犬、猫、もちろん子犬にも使用できます。目に刺激を与える塩化ナトリューム（食塩）は含んでおりません。高品質で洗浄力の高い商品で、しかも使用していると皮膚や毛に栄養と潤いを与えます。しかも生物分解性もあります。」

答えになってないと思うけど。目に刺激を与えるものを含んでない、ってことは、目に入ることは前提なんやね。「アナルバック社」製作っていうから、お尻にも入るかも。

Automatic Pet Washer, which washes a pet in his/her/its full. Great invension.

Some component specifications:

consistent temperature control
disinfection after each run
easy-to-use touch panel
and so on and so rubbish.

Thanks at least to easy-to-use touch panel, we can use this machine by our paw and nose (sometimes nose do more than think and articulate, it press button, it derives complex math formulae, it sniffs, it kisses).

Do you like it?

If human beings invented this so that they can be washed by us, I'd say they'd better stick to their old washing machine called "bath", especially given that the Japanese bath is rather confortable (Brits, you'd probably be happy to use this Lavacan machine).

If human beings are so misguided that they're thinking that they'd use it for us (surprisingly enough some human beings actually think, if they can think at all of course, that we are their pets), then I'd say that's just specie-centrism.

Anyway, let's see how this machine goes.

Bladder cancer detector

2004-09-24T04:36:00.000-07:00

Ohisashiburi, long time, tanto tiempo, beacoup de temps ...

A news from China (BTW why is it not "a new" instead of "a news"? I haven't heard anglophones saying "a dogs").

I don't know how long this link remains valid. Anyway ....

According to Xinhuanet September 24 2004, British researchers (yes, Brits not Biscuits nor Germans ---- widely held to be obsessed with urine and more) have trained dogs to detect bladder cancer by smelling urine. Six dogs were trained for that. It took over 7 months to detect distinctive odours (oh! dogs!).

The news (again, not "the new") say (or says?) "(w)ith an excellent sense of smell (and of humour of course), they are able to detect minute quantitites of the organic compounds produced by tumours." They were able to identify urine samples with bladder cancer 22 times out of 54.

Wowvow...

Perhaps we should start training human beings to detect our lung cancer???

About instability of web links, it reminds me of instability of urine message we use especially in rainy season. Does that mean that finally human information system becomes as civilised as that used by us?

National People's (Non-)Republic of Japan

2004-09-16T05:49:00.000-07:00

Another news I got from Japanese dogmate (rather political). Japanese Ministry of Justice violates international code related to political asylum by notifying the application by Turkish Kurds to asylum status in Japan to Turkish government, and they (Japanese and Turkish) even searched their relatives home in Turky.

Japanese Ministry of Justice spokesperson said "we see no problem of it". It's a clear violation of international code to deal with political asylum, and they see no problem? You can guess how dogs are treated with suspicion in Japan, even though they tend to be more properly toilet-trained than an average Japanese person --- you know, Japan seems to be the kingdom of toilet, unlike France where toilets are virtually non-existent (or rather, quite paradoxically, omnipresent de facto).

See a message from two Kurdish refugee families at:

http://www.bekkoame.ne.jp/~pyonpyon/fjc/04/sit-in2e.htm
Japanese Immigration and Asylum policy is truly inhumane (well, I don't really see that being humane is such a great trait, so I'd rather say truly "indoggy"!).

Also Japanese Immigration Bureau of the Justice Ministry opened a web-page so that people (who are they?) can secretly notify the Bureau of "suspected or alleged illegal foreigners."

For detailes, see
STOP Cyber-Xenophobia
where you can get information in Japanese, Korean and yes, ENGLISH (vowwow)!

Language Barrier

2004-09-14T18:06:00.000-07:00

I was asked by my friend living in Japan to write about this. The female human she's looking after just came back from France (she travelled there for about ten days), and complained to her husband (male human my friend is looking after) about dog behaviour.

According to her (my friend), she (female human)'s waking on nice green in a park where signs (everywhere) say "interdit du chien" and saw milliards of dogs walking there happily, without intervention from the park authority. She complained to her husband that French dogs do not abide by rules properly.

Here we see ignorance on the side of the creature called human being. For us dogs it's hard to understand written signs (even for those who sniffunderstand French), because they show different smells (well, the combination of the verb and the object does not really match but I leave it) from when they're spoken. Note we do not have very good eyesights and color perception is rather different from average human beings, it seems.

Now, the morale. If you want others to understand your message, appreciate properly their language and communication mode. This has potentially wide applicability.

PS: Just coz dogs ignoring messages written in French some people tend to think that dogs cannot understand French, which is often wrong. It's not language itself that we do not understand in many cases, it's just physical presentation of these messages that we cannot catch. After all, we are not Americans.

SHE NEEDS HER FUR

2004-09-04T23:51:00.000-07:00

Found a flywer "SHE NEEDS HER FUR MORE THAN YOU DO". Emotional, but impressive.

Yes, that's very true. I need my fur (if you can talk or sniff about dog's fur) more than you do, though in some hot summer days I nearly have a mind to throw it away.

A recent dog-poll has shown that more than half the dogs are happy to share their fur with human beings by just sitting next to them in a nice cold winter nite.

Remember, we don't want to have our fur stripped, but we're so generous that we can share the advantage of our fur with human beings; if they're nice, they'll even get wet and passionate licks on whichever body parts they like ...

What French call "partage".

Dog in NY

2004-09-01T09:01:00.000-07:00

I was reading the New Dog Times (yes, the newspaper of record, non-self-proclaimed/self-indulgent version), and found that a dog was spotted in the huge anti-war anti-Bush demonstration held at the same time as the Republican (Republican!) national convention.

That dog, I believe for his kindness to human beings and perhaps to Americans, put a sign on her body

I piss on Bushes

In fact, the recent poll (carried out by stratified sampling with hi-tec sniffing machine) has shown that 98% of the dogs are against the war. A simple fact that NYT (human self-proclaimed newspaper of record) does not ask our opinions shows that they're not really representative; they're monolingual, perhaps? Or they don't have proper noses, probably ......

Olympic slaughter?

2004-08-21T19:56:00.000-07:00

A friend of mine just ex-sniffed me this:

Go tell cerebus: 50,000 dogs slaughtered for Olympics?

Horrible. This page only shows motion pictures, not ensmells. Please go tell, show, ensmell, etc. as many creatures as possible.

I have to add, though, that it's not only the problem in Greece. In Japan, for instance, hundreds of thousands of dogs and cats are killed mechanically by (human) administrasions every year. If in your country you don't see many free dogs, you should imagine what's going on behind the scene.

DoGlossary:

ex-sniff: something like tell, not orally but nasally, in private and direct communications.

ensmell: something like tell, through smell, in general.

Hi there...

2004-08-20T21:58:00.000-07:00

I am a dog. I don't have a name ... well, I do. But for now just call me NoseKnows.

The reason I decided to have my own blog is simple. The other day I posted an article to New York Times (yes, "the newspaper of record"), but got no reply.

So I decided to make it available here:

On English etc...

NoseKnows, PhD (Dogtor of Philosophy)

For nearly half a century, scientists have tried hard to teach human language to apes, but in vain. This has led some to believe that only human beings are capable of using language. One of the most vocal proponents of this theory is the famous linguist Noam Chomsky, who claims that human language ability is based on an inherent biological mechanism. His theory revolutionized not only linguistics (turning the object of study from language to "grammar") but also many related domains. The harshest opponents of the Chomskian theory have tried hard to disprove Chomsky's claim, using the brilliant chimp Nim Chimsky, but with little success.

However, all of a sudden, at the beginning of the new millennium, the appearance of a new-generation ape has rocked the world scientific community. The ape's name is G.W.B., and even though the sounds he makes do not appear to mean a great deal, many of them still resemble English closely enough to have put Chomsky and his supporters on the defensive. The interesting point is that G.W.B. the ape has a record of trying hard to learn other languages, such as Spanish (which G.W.B. refers to as "Mexican"), but with devastating failure. This fact proves that English is the easiest of all the world's languages to learn (reinforced empirically by the fact that nearly 200 million Americans can also speak it).

So what is G.W.B the ape doing now? He was elected U.S. president (unconstitutionally and unlawfully), in no small part thanks to the massive lobbying efforts of the "U.S. Confederation for the Promotion of Animal Rights" (US-CPAR). Unfortunately, G.W.B. has proved to be the most corrupt and warmongering U.S. president of all time, topping every one of his corrupt and warmongering predecessors (even JFK).

Some factions of US-CPAR, disappointed by G.W.B.'s performance and in conflict with the current leadership of US-CPAR, which wants to retain the English(-like) speaking ape as president, have set up a new organisation called the "Confederation for the Careful Promotion of Animal Rights" (CCPAR). CCPAR is now working to get a decent pacifist-populist Golden Retriever elected in the next presidential election. The retriever, Alexandra Romanoff-Bourbon Monroe XV, is widely held to be the most attractive blonde since Marilyne Monroe. Alexandra has some problems speaking English, but she has a very friendly bark and opinion polls show her way ahead of G.W.B. in the popularity stakes. A spokesman for CCPAR commented, "Well, now we have an English-speaking ape destroying humanity under the slogan 'God bless America'. In our campaigning for Alexandra, we are using the phrase 'Dog bless America'." CCPAR believes that Alexandra, if elected, will prove to be the cleanest U.S. president ever, though they acknowledge it may be difficult to stop her drinking the water from White House toilet bowls.