Ruphus -> RE: Good news and bad news (May 18 2018 14:58:09)
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ORIGINAL: Shroomy726 Well it's certainly not easy to provide a single dog with everything he/she needs let alone four! My wife and I work all day so during the daytime, our dog used to get no exercise. I would come home at lunch to let her out, but I always felt guilty that she had to live waiting on us to return. She spent that time napping anyways which was her favorite thing (like my wife lol) and she was also relatively small so there wasn't that much built up energy as if she were a bigger dog. My brother bought a German Shepherd puppy about a year ago and it is obvious that the dog needs heavy exercise to behave properly. Probably an hour of excercise per day might not be enough! I have been pondering after our posts, last night. There is so much to express about us and fellow creature. In regard of dogs the behavioral subject has determined lately that dogs are fully focused on humans who they rank higher than fellows of their own species. And before that already it had been stated that dogs should not be left alone for longer than about 20 minutes. In spite of them sleeping much of the day. This being different from cats who sleep a lot too whilst however able to annul several hours of being left alone. Such bits led me to the conclusion to never keep any animal as single anymore. Owners who can´t be with their pets throughout the day should keep at least two individuals, which helps them a lot to overcome time when their people being away from home. Last night, like nearly every day, I was once again thinking over the beauty and pity with animals. To me it is beyond words, what one can see in them. In pretty much any species actually. When folks utter something like: "I like species X, but not species Y", I tend to point out to them that their affection ought to be based on projection instead of on appreciation. Because with the latter the charm of all the species comes through and enriches the observer. And vice versa, what a pity with the billions of poor denaturalized people who can´t feel the beauty of fellow beings. People who deal with them like with a thing or with a piece of meat. Who kick after them, throw stones, beat and torture. (There passes not one single day in which I won´t hear desperate yellings of tortured animals here.) People who will stay untouched even by the sweetness of puppies and other super cute animal babies. Being emotionally frigid even from early childhood on. Crippled people, inhumane people, who will exert their characteristics on anyone, including humans and including their own fellows. Monolithic souls empathetic for no one. Ogres. Worst of all, trillions of creatures exposed to the ogre being all the time. The constant consciousness of the unspeakable tears me apart. It drives me nuts. But back to pets. One hour of playing with a dog, even a shepherd dog, is not much, but as it appears to me, not that bad really, provided that he can enjoy one´s daily company for much longer than that. Because the non playing time counts as well. Constant and meticulous monitoring of his people (even when you won´t notice it at all) is entertaining and assuring to one´s pet as well. And even more so when one shares attention in between. They ought to be companion. It matters a lot and it will let them unfold. When they unfold, it becomes incredible to experience their emotional and cognitive capacity. Even sorts that were never meant to display associative skills for stranger species like us. One of the current viral videos shows a maybe three year old boy with his roofed bobby car, surrounded by maybe 30 or so rabbits. Incredible how curious, funny and undaunted these can be when having been treated gently. They try to enter the bobby car together with the boy, leave it be the minute he gets off and again storm the vehicle when he enters it, and so on. Hilarious! In the way that we know more about the moon than about the deep sea, our blindness over "Descartes´ automates" is a crying shame for the vast of humanity. Infernal ignorance for beings that some religions justifiedly so rank as angels. Besides, guess to have mentioned it before. An average dog is being estimated of cognition similar to a two year old kid. Keeping that in mind, one´s eyes discover enchanting parallels. Watching dogs under that aspect, one will actually spot "the kid in the dog". You know, like that stiff toddling a little child shows when proudly approaching you for to present the drawing it just made. Same stiff walk and tail up with a dog when it proudly brings you what it just found. Or the ways you can make it laugh, etc. ... It´s little kids on four legs and in fluffy coats or feathers.
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