Quote Originally Posted by Trek420 View Post
Treat me kindly, my beloved master, for no heart in all the world is more grateful for kindness than the loving heart of me.

Do not break my spirit with a stick, for though I should lick your hand between the blows, your patience and understanding will more quickly teach me the things you would have me do.

Speak to me often, for your voice is the world's sweetest music, as you must know by the fierce wagging of my tail when your footstep falls upon my waiting ear.

..... author --Beth Norman Harris

And if this doesn't work for her do you want me to come over there with my boken (Japanese solid oak practice sword) and periodically for no apparent reason entirely randomly whack her with a stick to see if that's a way she likes to learn? this said as always in the spirit of loving, kindness, protecting all things, supportive, friendly, jovial and peaceful, friendly, non-violent to all which is both Aikido and TE
Bravo!!! T420!!! Your insight is key here ... now that's what I'm talking about!
Thanks for sharing the poem by Beth Norman Harris, boy I sure can't keep my eyes dry in this chat room. That poem is beautiful and depicts exactly how I think our little furry friends see us.

I truly believe with every ounce of my being that animals are just as intelligent as we are, they just communicate differently and probably try to tell us things all the time but we're just not 'tuned' in to them.

If you treat an 'animal' like an 'animal' or as if they have no intelligence whatsoever, then you will get unintelligible behavior back. If you treat an animal like a living intelligent mammal that can be taught to understand what you are trying to communicate to them, then with patience you will get back an intelligent animal that with time will amaze you with what it knows and feels about you. Yes, I think animals have feelings ... no actually I KNOW they have feelings. My dog is a living example of that.