DOGS AND COMPUTERS: Same or Different?

Favorite Food

Dogs: kibbles

Computers: bits

Method used to end undesirable behavior

Dogs: hit with rolled up newspaper

Computers: hit control-alt-delete

After destruction of personal property

Dogs: dog not found

Computers: file not found

Favorite trick

Dogs: roll over

Computers: play dead

Comic-page hero

Dogs: Dogbert

Computers: Dilbert

Fun way to mess with their heads

Dogs: peanut butter on roof of mouth

Computers: peanut butter in CD-ROM drive

Consequence of virus

Dogs: replace valuable carpeting

Computers: replace valuable data

Widely ignored government mandate

Dogs: leash law

Computers: Communications Decency Act

Waste disposal tool

Dogs: pooper-scooper

Computers: uninstaller

Sensitive internal procedures

Dogs: must be undertaken by fully qualified professional

Computers: may be undertaken by that guy at work who fixed one kind of like this once

Method of marking territory

Dogs: lifting leg

Computers: "Designed for Windows 95"

Unique behavior

Dogs: lick and drag

Computers: click-and-drag

Inexplicable physical feature

Dogs: dewclaw

Computers: scroll lock key

Estimated lifespan

Dogs: 12 years

Computers: 12 months

At end of useful life

Dogs: euthanasia

Computers: tax deduction