Understanding Our Dogs, For Once

WE ALL LIKE TO THINK that our dogs understand what we say when we speak to them. We agree, however, that they do not, they cannot, because they aren't human, and that's a fact we just have to live with. Hopeless fantasy. Your dog only seems to be responding appropriately to you, because you want it to be that way. But, wait. Not so fast. Never assume anything until proven. Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence. Science comes through again! Some egghead scientist in Hungary, whose name, believe it or not, is "Attila", wanted to find out about dogs, and how well they understand us. So he trained about a dozen dogs of different breeds to lie still, and accept brain scan equipment. Then, he had their owners sweet talk them. Every dog owner knows exactly how to sweet talk her dog. They then had the owners talk blandly, emotionlessly, monotonously, in a dead sounding, neutral voice. Each time, the same part of the brain of all the dog's lit up in a certain way when sweet talked, but remained inert when talked to emotionlessly. It was the part of the brain which deals with communication. Obviously, all the dogs know the difference between sweet talk and cold talk. But how much, if any, of the actual message do they understand? It was also discovered that the communication center in dog's brains are identical to that in human brains. All the specific electrical and chemical responses in the dogs matched those in humans, strongly indicating that not only do do dogs understand the general tone of voice and what it means, but that they understand much more, maybe the message itself. Suddenly, millions of people can now speak to their best friend with a renewed sense of hope, a sense of real communication, really taking place. Sometimes our dreams come true.------WE ARE LOOKING TO PUBLISH CREATIVE, ORIGINAL WRITING WITH A VARIETY OF TOPICS, STYLES, AND THOUGHTS. PLEASE HELP FREE EXPRESSION BY LOGGING ON OFTEN. WE PUBLISH NEW MATERIAL EVERY FEW HOURS! THANKS!