Responding to my letter Do Not Feed My Dog, Muriel wrote me the following:
Hello Bruno, No, I don't like anyone else to feed my dog that is strangers. At the moment I am trying to make him slightly less attached to me so my daughter or son in law give him his proper food in the evening . I'm not perfect - he sometimes gets a bit of plain biscuit from me!l Muriel
Nobody is perfect Muriel, except the Universe.
According to me Mother Nature (the expression of the Universe on our planet) is always right, is always perfect, because she never makes mistakes.
Unspoiled children of Mother Nature, like for instance canines, are according to me also perfect. A dog is a dog. (S)he cannot be anything else but a dog. Which means (s)he cannot be right or wrong. (S)he simply IS.
Traumatized animals cannot be found living in the complete freedom offered to them by Mother Nature.
On the other hand, millions of unstable animals with traumas can be found while living with humans.
Strange you should say this about making your dog slightly less attached to you by inviting your daughter or son in law to give him food, while you are then giving him a biscuit.
Now and then.
What a beautiful human way of thinking this is. But, according to me, it has nothing to do with correctly understanding your dog.
Do you think a canine pack leader wants the members of his pack to be slightly less attached to him?
For what purpose?
Will the harmony in the pack become better?
Will the pack hunt more efficiently?
Will the pack members respect their leader more?
Will they pay more attention to him?
Will they feel more secure?
Will they trust him more?
Then there is the giving of the biscuit!!
Do you assume any canine pack leader will ever distribute biscuits in his life?
Do you think he will bribe members of his pack by offering them a biscuit?
Do you think his charisma, his presence, his calm assertive energy, his sense of leadership will increase if he does this?
Allow me to quote a magnificent African proverb for you. It was a present given to me by a wise black MKP brother from South Africa.
"Until the lion has his own storyteller, the hunter will always be the hero".
I see myself as a teacher of human beings and when teaching, I am translating what the dogs tell me. When I translate for clients, what their dogs are telling me it is usually the opposite of what the humans have assumed.
So I will now slightly adapt the African proverb in order to give it a canine "turn".
"Until the dog has an interpreter like me, the human will always assume (s)he is right and the dog is wrong."
The beauty of learning how to understand our dogs correctly is that they offer us the means to start understanding our own behaviour.
That is why I call dogs my teachers.
Dogs are showing us how we can live without lying, without blaming, without moaning, without criticising and without worrying.
I am not the only one to write about the fact that many people are not willing to think and feel like that. About the fact that they are sailing along the river called Denial. I fully understand and accept that, for I was sailing down the same river in the same boat until I learned how to listen to my feelings and how to work with my shadow.
I quote from the book titled "Be the pack leader" by Cesar Millan, page 210:
"Psychologists share an inside joke.
D.E.N.I.A.L, they say, stands for Don't Even Notice I Am Lying.
Human beings are the only animals who are happily lied to by our own minds about what is actually happening around us.....But we are also the only species with the access to consciously CHANGE our mental or emotional states."
More and more dog caring people are beginning to think and feel like that. By correctly understanding the behaviour of their dogs, they start understanding their own behaviour and the behaviour of their fellow human beings. This leads to more acceptance, to more solidarity and more empathy and honesty in our relationships.
Refering to what scientists working in the field of quantum physics have discovered, Cesar Millan writes:
"What does any of this have to do with dog psychology and becoming a better pack leader? It means that you, with your more powerful consciousness, can do something your dog cannot. You have the ability to control your reality - and with it, the energy you project - in ways that you probably do not even think possible......If you can positively project the intention you desire through real strength and honesty, your dog will instantly react to that calm-assertive energy."
Thank you Muriel for inspiring me. Your lovely message triggered something of in my brain, transmitted my interpretation of what you wrote to my fingers and look, here is the result.
Keep on writing.
LOVE
Bruno
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