There was a story in yesterday’s paper that announced that researchers have identified that dogs can be either an optimist or a pessimist.  (who pays for this research?).

Apparently the dog that howls and trashes the place when you are not at home, is a pessimist – whereas the dog that curls up and has a few ‘zuzzes’ is an optimist.

I presume that means that the ‘optimist’ dog sees the toilet bowl as being ‘half full’ whereas the pessimist…