Well, I am sitting here with my beloved Samoyed lying next to me on the couch. His head is on my lap and encroaching on my laptop. He has been the best dog I could ever have wished for; Loyal, wonderful, obedient, talented etc. And at the start I thought that to let him on the couch or the bed would ruin him and all of our hard won training. My point is that sometimes our perspective changes.
When I first met Toko, my plan was to make him sleep in a kennel on the porch for all of his days. Somehow I thought that this would make him a better trained dog and protect me from my allergies. There was no way he would be allowed on the bed or couch. Life experience, death and divorce have drastically changed my perspective….
Now I know that I knew nothing about dog training at that point. Things Change! I changed, my perspectives changed. I now have an amazingly well trained animal- I also have a companion that I cannot imagine my life without… the couch time, the bed time, whatever- the approach has not diminished the experience.
We must be continually aware that we might not “know” what we think we “know.” Our perceptions are clouded by our experiences.
“ Reality”to the human brain is a moving target and not a black and white fact. We are better beings when we acknowledge the relativity of our reality.
