Wacky Wednesday: First World Problems Like Doing Yoga with your Dog (Doga)

It's a dog and yoga... it's doga!

In most parts of the world, and for 99.999% of the time humans have been around as a species things like finding food, water, and shelter have been our primary concerns.  And if you live in a Third World nation, the trials and tribulations you face have remained relatively unchanged since mankind discovered fire.

But, in the First World, there is a new problem that needs to be solved… Yoga with your dog… Doga as it’s being called:

Forget fetching a stick, the hottest new way to exercise with your pampered pooch is dog yoga.

‘Doga’, which is said to appeal to your pet’s natural instinct to stretch, has become a new fad among New York dog-owners who believe it creates a unique bonding experience.

Classes involve stretching, massage and even chanting – at a pitch the dogs can mimic.

Owners are bringing their dogs with them to yoga classes so that their pets can drop their anxiety levels and raise their energy.

In my now “trendy” neighborhood in San Francisco there is a place where yoga classes are offered… I see the Yoga Warriors in with their mats slung over their shoulders like some sort of a Medieval archer getting ready for battle.  I think, for them, it’s almost as important to be seen with their yoga mats as it is to actually do yoga.

Dog says: WTF?!?

However, in a recent article in the New York Times titled How Yoga Can Wreck Your Body, master yoga teacher Glenn Black, on the mat for 40 years, says “that ‘the vast majority of people’ should give up yoga altogether. It’s simply too likely to cause harm.”

According to the article, 4 million Americans did yoga in 2001 while nearly 20 million did it in 2011.

Basically what this is all about are mostly mindless tools (also known as lemmings) simply hopping on the trendy bangwagon even if it’s dangerous for them to do so.

This is no different from people following other trendy things like Barack Obama, Occupy Wall Street, or buying into the whole Global Warming mantra.

Let’s face it, most people don’t take the time to learn anything before just jumping in and slapping a bumper sticker on their car.

Who knows how many do doga but, in my book, even 1 is too many.

Here’s an example of our problems in the First World…

First World Problems Meme

…versus problems for most of humanity:

Third World Success