Buzzed

I recently bought a nice “military-grade” green laser pointer to play with my dog.  Unfortunately I discovered that they’re really bad for most dogs, because it encourages really obsessive compulsive behavior.  I found this article which basically describes *exactly* what started happening with my dog after just 5 minutes of play with the laser.  In fact that was over a week ago and she’s still displaying some mild forms of the described behavior, and it makes me sad.  I hope I haven’t caused any permanent damage to her personality through my ignorance.

Needless to say, I have given the laser pointer to a cat-owning friend.  Apparently cats are a lot more mellow about the whole thing, and are more likely to be able to have safe play with the laser.

thefrogman:

sofapizza:

i can’t help that your crotch is like a magnet for laser pointers. sheesh.

Lasers were first theorized by Albert Einstein in 1917. For stimulated emission to occur a second, non-participating yet stimulating, photon must be present. The energy of this second photon must exactly match the allowed energy of the transition. Then the emitted photon will not only have the same energy as the stimulating one, but it will also travel in the same direction, and will be essentially identical to it. And then a dog bites you in the balls.