Posted on 07/18/2021 3:52:05 PM PDT by nickcarraway
I’m a old man I run a pack of treedogs about 10 months a year, we shut down for heat. Often I’ll lay down and take a nap while the dogs are running free. I’ll wake up with one dog laid down in my front other one laid down on my back. In my life time, I’ll have spent twice the time with my dogs, than any human being. I had a GREAT TIME with this wonderful animal, a true gift
I think that dogs, intellectually, are like perpetual three-year-old children. They know what you're saying to them, and they communicate back to you like a three-year-old child would. You can't always make out the words they say, but you know what they mean.
In fact, like all mammals, they get wiser as they get older. A 10 year old dog will be more like a four-year old. They know what you're saying but they play dumb. Their vocabulary has gotten bigger and they become more expressive, even to the point of throwing a temper tantrum if you don't give them what they want (usually in the food department).
However, the dog will respond to belly rubs in ways that the three- to four-year olds won't.
-PJ
Dogs are wild animals.
Nature has instilled in their genes the ability to hunt their prey and fend for themselves at the dinner table around here.. chicken, steak, hot dogs, you name it..
Take it from someone who has been held captive by two poodles for over a dozen years. I think they keep their ‘hosts’ around so someone can do the cooking.
Yes!But it’s not even funny! Dog Rule, cats drool.
LOL!
#Metoo
Amen!
As the saying goes, I aspire to be the person my dog thinks I am.
How Wonderful!
#Metoo
Parrots don’t seem to have much empathy. Horses may have an understanding of people, but we don’t live in close quarters with them (or with dolphins) so relationships with them are more limited than with dogs.
just as pig breeds will revert back to their wild heritage in a couple generations, so will dogs.
I love all my dogs, but I got one now I think I love even more. It’s weird how much we humans love our best friends.
Prior scientists were inspired by the notion of proving God’s existence through their methods. The ones who came after were consumed by a lust to try to prove the opposite and draw a false picture of a steady-state universe consisting only of matter.
But that can’t explain why this should be so
Creationists on the other hand know why
And yet many dogs have yet to master the mysteries of their own farts. My theory is that they are threatened by a strange invisible dog behind them who has obviously been stealing their food.
FReegards
“Dogs have lived around humans so long that they are tuned into us, emotionally and physically.”
I’m convinced that if an alien species landed on Earth they’d conclude that dogs are the most sophisticated technology humans have developed.
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Love it!
I for one, welcome our new canine overlords...
If dogs don’t go to heaven, don’t see much reason for me to either.
Or to put it another way: Can’t imagine heaven without an animal that just gives, every day, unconditional love. The kind of love Jesus asks of us.
I will never understand people who don’t like dogs and cats. I love the critters and they love me right back!
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