Flying chihuahua

I just read an article this morning on MSNBC. It was an Associated Press story about a six pound chihuahua in Waterford Township, Michigan that was just walking around at a flea market where her owners had setup shop to sell whatever wares one sells at a flea market. Unsuspectingly a 70 mph wind picked up this little chihuahua and blew it a mile away. The dog was found unharmed by it's distraught owners after they consulted with a pet psychic. I guess they have those at flea markets nowadays for animal lovers that must know whether Fido pooped on the rug after being locked in the bedroom for 14 hours while his owners sold tie dyed t-shirts and old car parts. 

Here's the thing though. One mile away. It doesn't sound very far does it? It's the distance it takes a car to travel in a minute if you're going 60mph on the freeway. A human in good shape can run it in about 5 or 6 minutes. You can walk it in 15-20. 10,000 soda straws laid out end to end would stretch for a mile. A mile is 5280 feet or 1760 yards. Both towers of the World Trade Center stacked on top of each other would only be a half mile tall. The Grand Canyon has an average depth of one mile. It only takes a fall of 5 feet to kill a full grown human being. It takes me 35 minutes to go one mile on the 110 North at 4:30 in the afternoon.
This tiny little dog got tossed a mile. Yet it survived and was fine.
The dog learned an important lesson.
Sometimes life picks you up and takes you for a ride. When you land sometimes you get all busted up and sometimes not. But as long as you're still breathing, you can dust yourself off and keep going.
And it helps if you have a pet psychic handy.