Celebrating Darwin Day

[ridesandruns]

So Monday, Feb. 12, is Charles Darwin's birthday, and in honor of that all kinds of brainy people are having talks and seminar and whatnot about evolution. I urge you all to admire your opposable thumbs and congratulate your ancestors on crawling out of the primordial ooze, though I do think our losing our prehensile tails was a mistake. (Really,

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[raphaelle]

darwin, who do you really like best out of your owners/caretakers and why? you're jean's little woof-woof, but what places do logan, warren, and scott hold in your little canine heart? :)

[ridesandruns]

Darwin can't write back himself -- he lacks opposable thumbs, poor thing, plus his slobber would short out they keyboard -- so the all-knowing third-person narrator has to answer.

Darwin knows he's Jean's dog and he adores her above all others. Scott is adored as Master, the person he's most likely to obey, Scott's lack of Klingon language skills notwithstanding. He tries hardest to please Scott.

Logan is buddy/protector/thuggish older brother. Darwin can do no wrong with Logan and he knows it, which is why he's unfazed by Logan's temper. Darwin also knows that Logan is the best target when it comes to begging for food.

Warren is the guy with the really wonderful-smelling, utterly yummy leather accessories.

[raphaelle]

Logan = thuggish older brother. BWAH. And Warren with the utterly wonderful leather accessories--how perfect!

I'm so sorry to be reminded of Darwin's lack of opposable thumbs. Ah well, he's a cutie and a wonderful plot device nevertheless. :)

Also--did Logan really eat Darwin's kibble? What did Darwin think of that? (Does Darwin like his kibble of people food?)

[ridesandruns]

The jury's still out on whether Logan tasted the kibble. He definitely smelled it -- he wanted to make sure it was suitable for the dog -- and he feels strongly that it's crap. Darwin loves Logan and has no objection to sharing food with him. As a beagle, Darwin will eat almost anything that fits in his mouth. He likes his kibble fine, but if he had his way he'd eat whatever Logan eats. (Which he more or less does, since whenever Logan cooks for himself the dog gets some. He and Logan are particularly fond of bacon.)

[rachel_martin64]

But we know who his parents are! And his uncles too! And Grandpa Charles! He even has a Wicked Stepmother!

[ridesandruns]

Shh! We know he's adopted! He doesn't have much contact with his birth family. (His birth mom's a bitch.)

[michan17]

Alright, now it's not every day that I ask questions of a fictional dog, and this does make me worry in a vague sort of way about my sanity - but:

1. What did Darwin think about Puppy Kindergarten?
2. What does Darwin think of Emma?

You don't have to answer both, I'm just throwing them out there. :)

[ridesandruns]

Darwin was getting a complex about Puppy Kindergarten at first because he kept getting roughed up by much bigger dogs. (Who only wanted to play, but who freaked him out because he was so much smaller.) He likes it fine now, though he doesn't quite get why Scott gets so overwrought there. (Scott's still seething from the time the other parents owners sneered at him and Jean for bringing an "inappropriate snack." (They brought standard dog biscuits, the others had chi-chi organic food.))

He hasn't seen much of Emma. He's wary of her, because he knows Jean doesn't like her, and that Emma doesn't like him. He'd never bite her, but he avoids her.

(And hey, I'm all loopy from a difficult week at work, so pondering the motives of a fictional dog seems like a good idea to me. ;) )

[xenokattz]

Seeing as how Darwin is named after a great scientific mind, which book would he prefer to chew on: Stephen J. Gould's The Panda's Thumb or Bill Bryson's A Short History of Everything?

Also, which of his Uncle Warren's tasty leather accessories does he like the best?

[ridesandruns]

Darwin has a marked preference for Uncle Warren's watchband and shoes, because they smell the strongest. He also gravitates toward anything expensive. We will draw a veil over the day he got into Warren's room while Warren was showering and decided to sample his wallet. (That'll teach Warren to throw it on a nightstand.)

As for the books, which one is closer? He's not picky. :)

[ridesandruns]

Whoops, that should have had this icon.

[xenokattz]

At least it wasn't Warren's Little Black PDA inside it Little Black Leather Pouch.

[onlyonechoice]

What do you think Uncle Logan will do when he finds out that Darwin's scheduled to be "tutored"?

[ridesandruns]

Heh. He wasn't real happy about it, to put it mildly. And the men in the mansion were even less happy when Jean launched into a dinner-table explanation of how "Medically speaking, castration is a nothing surgery. Any moron with a knife and a couple of rubber bands could do it."

[raphaelle]

*wicked cackling* can there PLEASE be a fic, or at least a drabble, in which that dinner-table explanation actually takes place?

cause i think that would make my YEAR.

[ridesandruns]

Heh. I'll think about it, OK? Can't promise anything. Isn't it weird how certain topics get men so squeamish? I don't know any women who get ill when they talk about spaying their pets, but I know more than a few men who get really uncomfortable about it.