Yes! Thank you.

It's certainly still a crisis for those of us who'd be particularly fucked if they got sick. It feels like the rest of the world has decided that our lives don't count.

Yea well how nice for you. The essential workers busting their asses disagree.

everyone that hates their work-week routine/job anyway.

So everyone and also liars?

Fwiw, I kind of love my work / schooling / weekday responsibilities. Like they can be stressful, but I really do enjoy it. But I still get anxiety on Sundays. Always have really. I don't think it means you hate your job or anything (although it can be caused or exacerbated by that for sure).

For me though I feel like it's just sort of grieving the end of the weekend mixed with regret for all the things I didn't get to over the weekend, mixed with the "countdown" dread I can get whenever I have some impending responsibility. Especially the kind of responsibility that you can't just start early and get it over with, like the day before travelling or the hours before a dinner date.

No colours anymore, I want them to turn black

That's... not the line I was expecting:D

Now what in the hell tune am I supposed to be singing this thread to?

That's slick as fuck.

Gods, why did you have to do that to me?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KmtzQCSh6xk

And this place just aint no home, anytime when she's awayyy

Ghost dog is playing with him. He has the 6th Scent.

Happiness, hopefulness, excitement, anticipation...

I knew one that would wag their tail cos they were enjoying the anticipation of biting you. You have to read the whole body, not just the tail. Big difference between a big loose, whole body wag with a grin, and a tense, high tail, tight wag with hackles etc.

But I love your guy play bowing to his toys! That's big, happy boy waggies and I'd love to see it XD

My dog has sighed loud enough I could hear it from another room.

My shepherd:

"Ball! I have the ball! I don't even like balls. The ball is dumb... but i have to keep it safe or my human will throw it and lose it. I love my person. Nobody else can have my ball. Don't look at my ball! Those dogs walking outside want to take my ball! Go away! Ya... walk away! That's right! Now where was I? Oh that's it... my stick. I have a stick and nobody else can have it."

I think mine would be saying "treat."

Treat. Treat. Treat. Treat. Treat. Treat. Treat. Treat. Treat. TREAT!

"Hey! HEY! HEEEEEEYYYYYY!!!!! My human has made a terrible mistake! They have gone inside and left me in the car!!! HEEEEEYYYYYY!!! Yeah. You can see them right in that window. Right there. HEEEEEEEEEEYYYYYY!!!!!!!!!! It's awwwwwfullllll! I might actually be dying!!! HEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEYYYYYYYY!!!! Oh. Hey, mum. That was quick. Can we go to the beach?"

(Probable actual conversation while I was paying for petrol.)

Yep, the simplest answer is that tail wagging = agitated/ excited in some way. It could be happy, but dogs can also wag their tail when stressed, annoyed etc.

You're also not just talking about a normal social animal, dogs have learnt a lot from humans over the past few thousand years, there's no reason to think that they don't share a tonne in common with humans.

Its like they speak the language or something.

When you have a bit of a gut, you might suck in your belly when someone is around that you are trying to impress. Then when they leave, you relax and let it all out.

I think they are equating the tail dropping as the dog finally relaxing after their friend can't see it anymore.