Less is more, the smell of hay and animals to me was always comforting Natural,and I am sure Mary and Joseph cleaned the place up a bit.Oh yea and lets not forget how quiet and peaceful it must have been away from the noisy people at the inn.

I’ve alWays loved that ! But you gotta throw in “Man’s best friend” with that! There is a story that before man ruled the world, the dogs did. And they were very advanced like we are today, and they had all kinds of fun night clubs and entertainment like Britany Spears, that was dogs doing tribal dancing with bongos and spears. and cocker spanials howling some sort of spanish doggie “You Are So Beautiful” and of course there were clubs that did “Lapso-Apso’ (if you catch my drift!) Anyway, this one Dog Club owner was a bit annoyed because there were too many fights breaking out all the time and cutting into his profits. So he put a sign at the door “No assholes allowed” and “All assholes must be checked at the door” So when each dog entered, they had to check their asshole at the door before they were allowed in. Now it all worked out better, except this one night, a fire broke out and the place went up in flames. In the rush to get out in the cold, every dog grabbed what ever asshole they could, not caring if it was their own or not. And to this day, whenever dogs meet each other, they check each others butts to see if it is their asshole! … and that’s the other side of the story!
LUV 2 ALL
Wisdum

You know the rule, Therese (which might have something to do with this anagram):
If you’re ready to give unconditional love, have a child. If you’re ready to get unconditional love, get a dog

aAnd then there was the dyslwxic atheist insomnia who got out of bed one morning even more exhausted than was normal because je’d been awake all night wondering if there really was a dog! Okay, I admit it, I stole this from Bnet’s religious jokes site, but since we’re talking about our canine friends’ I couldn’t resist, thinking maybe at least ONE of you hadn’y read/heard it!dOgs are AWESOME; I miss not having one (Not allowed in my retirement community. I’m not sure who really owns whp, though, since we humans are the ones who follow THEM around, cleaning up THEIR sH*T!

I have a bumper sticker with a cartoon dog that reads
D.O.G. (Depend On God)
Which I always try to do while driving.

And where do cats come in the equation- G-d might be dog spelled backwards but there is a cat purring on G-d’s lap!!!