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My ar komunikace s tebe denne is nekdo naslouchání poslech?
Nos es defero vobis sulum , est quislibet audio? Nosotros estamos comunicación consigo corriente , es alguien escuchando?
]m yn cyfrannu chennych everyday , ydy anybody yn gwrandaw? Estamos comunicando contigo cotidiano , é qualquer um escute?
Look like gibberish to you ? Pretty confusing and difficult to read, what you do not understand. Now, you know how your dogs feel.
Translation :
“ We are communicating with you everyday, is anybody listening ?”
You may have witnessed people in the general public saying things like “ SIT, SIT.” “Come on Buddy, can you sit for me? “ as they are hunched over their dog repeatedly pointing at the dogs butt as if there was a button on it that would automatically lower their dog to the floor. We love our dogs, and we should ! They are treasured members of our family capable of bringing us great pleasure and satisfaction.
However, because we love our pets so much, this is where we make our biggest mistake: We tend to HUMANIZE THEM. We see them as our children. So of course we are going to treat them and communicate with them as such. Unfortunately we see life through human eyes and they see it through a dogs eyes. It is here that much of what we are trying to convey gets lost in translation.
Everyday our dogs are communicating to us by use of their body language and vocal. Animals have the simplest form of communication. They understand each other almost immediately. They hold no grudges when a dispute occurs, never think about what happened yesterday, don’t care about what’s going on tomorrow and just live in the here and now. Pretty black and white world they live in. Humans could really learn a lot from animals, if they stopped to take the time to look and listen .
Generations of selective breeding have altered the physical appearance of our dogs greatly from that of the original wild canines that first dared to include themselves in our lives. Other than the obvious fact they are both mammals with two eyes, 42 teeth, four legs and a tail, is there anyone who would consciously look at a Chihuahua and see him as a close relative of the wolf? Physically they are worlds apart and yet they both still possess the same basic instincts and drives that have aided them in their continued survival both in the wild and in domestication. It is not their teeth that have kept them alive all these years. It is their ability to acquire and maintain social order as a pack.
Not for the good of the one but for the continued survival of the species as a whole. This could not be achieved without an amazing ability to communicate their wants, needs and desires quickly and clearly without leaving a great deal of room for misunderstanding or miscommunication. Altercations do occur sometimes violently, however they have discovered and insisted on one simple fact of life. Despite vast individual differences, survival as a whole requires harmony among individuals.
Again, we can learn a lot from our dogs.
This article was published February 22, 2009 on Page 3 of the Sunday Sentinel
