If you have to ask ...

On Sunday, the PBS show Nature will premiere an episode titled "Why We Love Cats and Dogs."

It will be shown at 8 p.m. ET on WNET, and shown throughout the week.

Here's is the Nature Web site about the show.

The program will show the connections we have with our pets and will, based on a couple of video excerpts, cause you to reach for the tissues every once in a while.

Some people are cat people, some are dog people. But regardless of which camp they fall into, most people are simply crazy about their pets. The connections people form with their cats and dogs are often the longest, strongest relationships in their lives. They are our soul mates, our best friends, sometimes even our surrogate children. What makes these creatures such key members of our families?

To finish this blog entry's title ... you don't know what you've missed.

Nature is amazing

This video, which my colleague Taani Pande told me about, falls way into the "etc." portion of this blog.

It has nothing to do with pets. None of the animals in the video should ever be considered as pets.

The footage is, to me, simply stunning, showing the animal world at its most basic. And, from some of the comments from the people taping and observing the incident, it shows humans at their most banal.