Are You as Evolved as Your Dog?

[BritChaser]

This appeared in our local weekly:

"If you can be cheerful, ignoring aches and pains; if you can resist complaining if you eat the same food every day and be grateful for it; if you understand when your loved ones are too busy to notice you; when you can overlook your loved ones taking it out on you though you've done nothing wrong; if you take criticism without resenting it; if you can ignore lack of education in, and refrain from correcting, others; if you befriend equally both rich and poor; if you never lie nor deceive; if you can deal with anxiety without medical help; if you can sleep without drugs; then you have reached the same level of development as your dog."

 

[A5 Sweet 16]

I like this a lot. I'm nowhere near that developed, of course. Especially since my version would say, "...without medical help; if you can sleep without drugs; if you know, even a tiny bit, what a pheasant smells like; then you have reached the same level of development as your dog."