I do not believe you can work with animals - certainly you cannot train them - without deciding that if humans have souls, dogs do, too.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
People say I train dogs, but in many ways I train people.
It is an incontrovertible fact that if we want to make progress in basic areas of medicine and biology, we are going to have to use animals.
Animals are a continuous source of inspiration and wonder to me. I would love to play a dog.
You cannot share your life with a dog, as I had done in Bournemouth, or a cat, and not know perfectly well that animals have personalities and minds and feelings.
If it is indeed impossible - or at least very difficult - to inhabit the consciousness of an animal, then in writing about animals there is a temptation to project upon them feelings and thoughts that may belong only to our own human mind and heart.
All training is negotiation, whether you're training dogs or spouses.
If having a soul means being able to feel love and loyalty and gratitude, then animals are better off than a lot of humans.
Working on behalf of companion animals is so important. We start to realize how healing they are.
At any rate, we can see that they are given into our care, that we cannot just do whatever we want with them. Animals, too, are God's creatures.
You have to train a dog to think.
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