A dog's life involves responsibilities and concomitant dangers. Here's an example.
First, to put it in its context, one of my responsibilities is to protect our house and property. Another is to watch over the neighborhood more generally.
Second, we live at a busy T-intersection. Many cars, school buses, small trucks and delivery vans speed by daily. Furthermore, the sidewalks provide tree-lined pathways for neighbors and students from the nearby high school. Walkers, joggers, bikers, parents pushing prams, etc.
I trust this sketch wil help you comprehend the example I shall now relate:
This morning, a gray and blustery morning, I was outdoors on the porch with Mama. A Large Dog, wearing a collar but no tags, broke into our space, approaching the screened porch and rampaging around our property. He said he wanted to play, but why should I believe him? I knew what I had to do--first the low growl, then the full-out bark.
"Arf, arf," I cried.
The Large Dog opened his mouth and showed off his tongue.
"Arf, arf," I shouted.
After several returns of this sort, the Large Dog ran away. And I chalked up another success in the dangerous but satisfying job with which I am trusted.
1 comment:
Congratulation Mercury
Before your story, I did not know about the inter-personal communication of dogs. Therefore, we can understand this event as a communicative process, which include words that altered with arfs. In this way, on the last moment of this process, the sender was you, as a threatener; the receiver was the Large Dog. However, the communicated message was such a concept that in result the big dog ran from your kingdom!
Congratulation, you have a talented communicator. It may come from your companionship with a professor of communication, Dr. Elizabeth.
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