I love looking at videos and photos of dogs and cats online. It’s one of the things I do to relax before going to bed. And yes, I know what they say about blue light. Honestly, it doesn’t seem to make a difference one way or the other.

In any case, I see a lot of photos of cats inside of large glass vases or pots where they look for all the world as if they really are liquid. It seems to work best with the long-haired cats.

I’m going to say that if cats are a liquid, then dogs are a gas. Aside from the old meaning of “a gas” as something that is a lot of fun (yes, I am probably giving away my age here), I think that an argument could be made in favor of this statement.

We have a very special little dog named Maddie. She weighs about 13.5 pounds of solid muscle. So how could she be a gas?

She sleeps with us in bed. Yes, I know what they say about that too. But she wouldn’t be happy any other way. The first night we had her, she got right up on the bed with us and burrowed under the covers. She’s never given that up.

Here’s the thing. She likes to sleep pressed up against me. At some point during the night, I get up to pee. When I get back in bed, she has somehow expanded to fill the space I vacated. I’m willing to bet that this is the case with just about all dogs.

It is the nature of a gas to expand to fill whatever space it occupies. End of argument.

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