What is my dog thinking?

Dogs fascinate me.  They are sweet, kind, funny, and remind me of a little kid with a lot of hair.  In high school, I had two labs: Sonny & Teddy.  Sonny had a very short, yet sweet & happy life.  Teddy, Carl Theodore Dakota was his registered name, was with me for a quite a long time.  My senior year of high school I choose a new lab over a new car and I got Teddy!  We did everything together and he slept with me every night.  And, this was not a small task.  Teddy was a big lab-well over 100 pounds.  My parents would open the door to the house and I could hear him rumbling down the hallway toward my bedroom as if he were a freight train.  Then, he would pounce on me and my bed and crush me.  While sleeping he would stretch his legs and nearly push me off my small full-sized bed.  While at Clemson, occassionally I would bring him to my apartment to spend a few days.  This over 100 pound lab would thump and roam around my apartment and wonder why I took him from the vast expanse of my parents' home in Travelers Rest with over seven acres of land and horses and creeks and woods to explore?  The answer was simple: I missed him.  Now, I look at my new lab, Diet Coke or DC for short, and I wonder what he thinks about.  Why won't you walk me?  Why don't you feed me more?  Why can't I have a hamburger?  Can't I eat that blanket?  I love all, well most dogs.  But I have an affinity for labs.  They always have such a quizzical yet happy look on their faces.  As far as DC's thoughts go, they revolve about one simple thing: BALL! He is obsessed with balls.  We can't even say the word without a panic attack, so of course, we spell it.  I wonder how long it will take him to figure out that when we say B-A-L-L we are really talking about his ball.  I guess then we will have to call it broccoli or couch or some other substitute word.  Right now, as he has finally settled down and forgotten about his, well you know,  and is snoozing at my feet, I wonder what he is thinking: I really wish I could help Nicole clean the house.  She is such a great person! Yeah, right!