Do you think your pet understands you very well?
@roshnichaudhary (1160)
United States
3 responses
@vivienna (582)
• Venezuela
28 May 07
That depends entirely on the kind of pet and the kind of owner. As a child a had a hamster and although I cared for him, neither it nor I made progress in understanding in the sense of alternating reactions.
After I had been blessed with having a Saint Bernhard dog, not as pet, but as friend,I know for sure that dogs understand very, very well. He understood not only words, gestures and facial expressions, but moods and emotions, and there are few people who can tell so exactly what I pretend to do next as my fourlegged friend could interprete from any movement I made.
Uderstanding developes more easy in a one-to-one relationship, undisturbed by other family members or other pets. But it's a wonderful experience!
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@Inky261 (2520)
• Germany
28 May 07
My cockers understand me perfectly. It is mutual. I think they are on a level of a 5 year old preschool child. They know everything. They understand the words and my feelings. They even can read my thoughts. They have senses that are very superior to mine. Often they know without that I have to say a word. they understand me better than people.
@vivienna (582)
• Venezuela
28 May 07
Yes, that's exactly the experience I made. As to their level of understanding: their really seems childlike, but at the other hand, their proverbial fidelity, never changing affect, their courage, their attention to everything we do and to everything around us, that's doglike, in the best sense of the word.
I have a little, very weird and unorthodox theory: that after living in men's company for so many thousand years, dogs have developed something superior to an animal's instinct, something like a soul. Yes, I think they have.
