Where is the dog?

Being Happy There are 50 million results  if you ask my friend, Mr Google, about "being happy". I suspect though that as you start to get beyond page 5, the results bear no resemblance to what you were really looking for.  Actually Dave (see, e.g.,  Dog Blog 17  - Semicolons ) told me that last stat - which was totally made up. Interestingly, there was still interesting stuff (doubly interestingly, and now triply so) on page 5 of Mr Google's offerings: where, among other things,  Michelle Obama  suggests that you need to "give yourself permission" to be happy.  Happy thinky Fellow Dog,  Matthew Pianalto , had a thinky about some of this stuff. He points out that there are a number of different ways you might look at happiness: broadly psychological things that lead to happiness (going for a walk with a nice ball to chase, or a zen like state when chasing the ball)  and the destination itself. The second bit is very tricky, at least for dogs like me an