Which is true, I suppose, unless you happen to be a dog who unwittingly triggered the webcam on her master's laptop while trampling across the keypad in search of crumbs. Then the mask of anonymity falls and everybody in the pet training chat room can immediately spot the canine interloper. Not that our pets would log on to such a site in the first place, of course. A dog on the Internet would surely be surfing food porn and cat videos if presented with the opportunity. I can't imagine they'd have any interest in the sort of overbearing, tyrannical nonsense that dog whisperers promulgate.
Personally, I think dogs should be encouraged to engage with the Internet, as both consumers and producers. After all, as this very web page proves, random digital images of dogs are much more interesting than anything egotistical humans can add to the Internet. Who wouldn't rather look at pictures of dogs being goofy than scroll through people's idiot blog ideas, dreary news aggregators, boring Facebook updates and Twitter's ungrammatical diarrhea. I would infinitely prefer to study Instagram self portraits of bulldogs in baskets than read the Huffington Post, for example.
So thank God for online dogs, whether they be self-publicizing poodles or schnauzers cloaked in secrecy. Frankly, I believe it's about time we changed that cartoon meme to "On the Internet, everyone hopes you're a dog."
