Dogs, while descendants of the gray wolf, have been domesticated for tens of thousands of years. Leading a nomadic life to satisfy one's needs is also vastly di

Dogs, while descendants of the gray wolf, have been domesticated for tens of thousands of years. Leading a nomadic life to satisfy one's needs is also vastly different from sudden and abrupt change of one's environment - and even the relatively smart Alsatians have trouble with this (but then again, they're extremely territorial). I still don't get the joke, except perhaps the increasingly dumb number of ways in which one can anthropomorphise her pets.