Plan 9 said:
but...but...animals
can talk. My dogs tell me things all the time; they always speak of dog things, but they have an expressive language. They tell me things like,
"INTRUDER ALERT! OPEN THE GUESTROOM DOOR! NOW!"
"Come look out the window! There's a cat in the yard I want you to see!"
My male says to human men he likes,
"You can tell I'm a big Alpha Male, too, can't you?"
and to male canines and male humans he doesn't:
"You leave my girls
alone!"
All these messages, and many more, are conveyed by various barking patterns, and when I teach them to say "Hello!" and "I love you!" they incorporate these human phrases into their play, but never use them when they fight.
I think that trees and scrubs must feel something when I prune them, or when I feed or water them, but, if so, I'm not in touch with what.
I so agree with plan9 on this.I was so astonished the other day when I actually saw a dog speak on one of those Riply shoes or something like that.The dog could actually talk.It freaked me out,I'm sure some of you saw it.The dog learned to say several sentences.Anyway,Animals know excactly what you are saying half the time,well they know key words.
If you spend time watching crows or mexican Ravens you can very easily learn their language,I talk to them all the time and they understand me and I understand them.The neighbors think I'm quite crazy cause they hear me saying Caw,caw,caw and growling at them.You can tell when they are looking for somebody or warning others,and they growl sometimes sounding like children.They tell others not to come into their territory and that makes me mad sometimes cause I let them know that this is my territory and I growl at them and they get the message,sounds silly but it's fun because they know excactly what I'm saying.
I love birds and I love learning their language.Most people never notice,they hear a bird singing and they think that he is so happy but most of the time its a cry for help or a territorial thing.
It's bad enough that the neighbors have seen me digging in the front yard with a spoon by moonlight and then I add dr.Dolittle to that.but insects and animals fascinate me.Sometimes I wonder that if G-d is Omni prescent and all seeing that maybe it's through the eyes of insects and animals that he sees us.Probably not but just a thought.
The cats and dogs that I have had have E.S.P. and seem smarter than humans cause if I'm in a bad mood I don't have to say a word and they allready know it.
What really makes me mad is those doves,Their love for their babies is so strong that they sit in the middle of the street trying to steer your car away from their nest that many of them die.I talk to doves all the time and they know what I'm saying but they think I'm female and they will actually come closer to you if you can make that dove sound but its hard to do,they feel a bond with you but they make me angry when I have to hit the brakes of my car.they work in pairs often and if you can make a dove call they will talk to you and come closer.
Grackels are so arrogant,they live in herds of thousands,they are the most selfish birds.They come every morning eating my cat food and they get really mad if enough food isn't there.they will come within 3 feet of you screaming that the food has run out and wanting an answer why this has happened.I fight with them every morning telling them that I'm not their slave but they never believe it,they spit and curse and try and take a dump on my head,those are the birds you see in the movie{the birds} by Hitchcock
My favorite birds are the woodpecker and the hummingbird cause you never hear a peep out of them,you hear the woodpecker working for what he eats digging holes into trees eating the bugs within,he's not selfish and lazy like a grackel or a Raven,he works all day and doesnt complain.
The hummingbird is the best of all.If you set some hummingbird food out and make it a practice of getting close to him,he will get used to you and before you know it he will fly stationary right in front of ur face seeming to kiss and love you for feeding him,very,very cool.
Dang this is a long post,sorry but I love birds so much and animals.Don't be fooled to think that they don't talk and relate because some of them are better than most of the people I know.
There is a sandpiper that lives right outside my window that screams night and day for another sandpiper but he happens to be the only sandpiper in my town,I don't know how he got here but he keeps me awake several times a week screaming for other sandpipers.They all live at the beach and some how he landed here,I figure maybe somebody found him wounded and brought him here but he is the lonelyest bird around,he never sleeps and he screams all the time.Quite often I think maybe I'll go to Wallymart and get me a pellet gun and kill him but then I feel so sorry for him and his crying for others,so I put up with him and his screaming.I kinda feel a bond with him cause its so rare and he is so alone but he really makes me mad with his screaming,he's always searching,always looking for somebody like him.
Plants and trees, Most people don't see them as something that can communicate with people but that's not true,plants can teach you more about yourself than any person could.If I died tomorrow the one thing people would say about me is that I have a green thumb and I adore plants.
Plants and trees speak to you,Go get you a little tree,go get you a pecan tree and love it.feed it and plant it in good soil in a movable bucket.When it's leaves turn brown give it more water and when it's leaves turn yellow stop giving it so much water,learn what makes it happy.Talk to it everyday as if it were a friend and it will feed you when it gets old.People think that plants and trees have no emotions but they really do,If you don't love them they might die on you but when you really love them they flourish.One time I carried a Pecan tree where ever I went and it got big and strong and I met this chick and settled down and married her and I planted that Pecan tree in our front yard.But a few years later me and my wife broke up and I was so disgusted at myself because I had planted that Pecan tree in the front yard and I was now banished from that property.
When I left I was so upset not because I had to leave that woman but because I had planted that Pecan tree in the front yard and it was now to big to dig up,so like an idiot I went out and cut that tree down to the ground cause I coudnt standd the thought of it living without me,I know what your thinking,I'm a phycho but hey,I agree
That was 20 years ago and I thought I had killed that Pecan tree but I didn't in fact I made that tree stronger than any tree in the subdivision because I gave it a chance for the roots to catch up and through the strife and the trouble of that relationship that tree is flourishing and is the most magnifiscant tree in the neighborhood.I learned alot through loving that tree about myself.
Every little thing in this life is about teaching us who G-d is.Hee is in everything,in every plant,in every animal,its all a lesson.
I dint mean this post to be against what Cerrindwen said because I think she said about the same thing I'm saying now in an earlier post.reality is something we all have to deal with.
